In With Love From Spain , Melanie Martin, the Martins are off to Spain on vacation. Melanie Martin, her little brother, known as Matt the Brat, and their parents are going to see all the great sights and museums in Spain, from the loud loud loud firecrackers at the Mascletà festival to the Picasso Museum, all the while being escorted by Melanie's mother's high school boyfriend, Antonio, and his son, Miguel, who calls Melanie May Lah Nee. Melanie tries to prevent her mom from what she thinks is a long-lost relationship for her dad's sake, all the while trying to capture a relationship of her own with the double-kissing Miguel.  

Carol Weston, the author of With Love From Spain , Melanie Martin and the other Melanie Martin books, is also an advice giver for Girls Life magazine, which introduced me to these books in the first place a year ago. She really knows how to create a realistic family vacation, and knows exactly how it feels to have your first love. With Love From Spain, Melanie Martin was the most recent book, and it kept me hanging on for page after page.

Even though I've never been out of the U.S. , and I don't have a bratty little brother, or any siblings for that matter, I felt like I could relate to the problems and the fun times Melanie had visiting Spain . This story also taught me a lot of Spanish words and phrases I never knew before, and there are handy, funny pronunciations for the Spanish words some readers wouldn't know how to pronounce otherwise, like perfecto, which Melanie tells us is pronounced Pair Fec Toe.

 I definitely enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it to any of my fellow students or other girls about ten through twelve that would like a realistic book with good laughs and a bit of romance mixed in. I'm very glad I read this enjoyable novel.