Kids Books - Family

Eleven year-old Shelby Jayne Allemond has been left. Her mother left their family when Shelby was ten. Her grandmother Phoebe is in the hospital, and her dad must leave on a business trip to Ukraine. That means that Shelby Jayne must go to Bayou Bridge, Louisiana to live with her mother, Mirage. She refuses to forgive Mirage. Mirage is a traiteur, or a healer who uses the power of God. Shelby starts finding strange notes in the beautiful blue bottle tree out back. Even stranger, there is a nice girl named Gwen who lives by her self on an island. Shelby can't shake the feeling that something super-natural is going on. This a story that pulled my heartstrings. It was written by the sister of someone in my church. My mom pointed it out at the bookstore, and it looked cool, so we got it. An AMAZING book!

Love is! Met the authors! One of the authors acted in doctor who. Best show ever. Got the book autographed. If you love superpowers, fantasy, and adventure, you will love this.

Its asad book because a german shepard tore him up but its a awesome book

One day two girls named Malatta and Terrezi were planning their birthday parties because their birthdays were a month apart so they went down stairs to ask Malattas mama if the could have a real cake with real sugar her mother said "Malatta we don't have enough sugar to make you and terrezi a birthday cake we will try to make or get one but sugar is to much money and buying a birthday cake will waste me and papas money but we will try" after malatta heard that she and terrezi went back up stairs to make more plas for their birthday party.

I like this book because it is interesting and easy to read. This story is about a boy and a girl who decide to start a business, wich is to make toothpaste. They learned how to make a business and they learned how tiring a business can be.

I'm reading it now and it is really interesting. I have a couple of friends who have read it and really enjoyed it. Even though i'm not finished I give it a 5 star rating.

The story focuses on "Little Man", which is the paperboy. He throws the meanest fast ball in Memphis during 1959. Unfortunately, he had problems speaking. Words come out of his mouth with sounds like s-s-s-s, or tu-tu-tu. He was bullied by his classmates, and type down his stories using an old type writer of his dad, and shared his own feelings with the audience. He took over his friend's job, and hoped that he can get better at speaking because he was required to speak to adults during the newspapers are handed out. One part that I was really heart broken is that the pain of not being able to do what others do, for example, when your friends all get to play at an amusement park, while your mom forbidden you to. That's what Little Man feels. Just it's much deeper, much painful that just not going to the amusement park. Little Man had try all techniques pushing him to speak, and this is painful for a reader to read. I don't really appreciate how people beside him treated him, sometimes they are just too cruel, and will harm Little Man from deep down inside. If I was Little Man's friend or neighbor, I will be willing to help him learn to talk, or even help him with communicating with others.

this book is really good the plot and setting make it awesome. i wish it was a series i like that the girl has to learn a different langues and same with the boy but it is sad when the grandpa passes away :(

I've read year of the book, also from this series, it's really good, humourous, and its creative.

Awesome book. I read it three times. I laughed a lot. You can learn a lot about the civil rights movement