This book is about three siblings that deal with
the parent’s planned trip to Paris to renew their wedding vows. Their names are
Tine who is 11, Vince who is 9,and Aidian who is 7. When their parents tell them
that they are leaving, they start to complain, but when their parents tell them
that their Aunt Marsha
is going to come and care for them they nearly pass
out. Their Aunt Marsha is terrible. She is very mean and she can’t cook at all.
Their dad, who is Aunt Marsha’s brother, doesn’t get along with her either. The
day Aunt Marsha comes she already starts trouble.
She complains about the food and fuses over which car
to take to the airport. Then she says that their dad, her brother, drives badly.
When they get home after taking their parents to the airport, she won’t let Tine
sit in the back seat with Aidian. And that’s not the only thing. During the 3
weeks that she is there she won’t let them have friends over, did not allow them
drink grapefruit in the morning, and made them read books that are boring and
too confusing. She won’t even let Mandy, the family dog, sleep in the house.
She doesn’t get along with Aidian the most because he
is always reading books she doesn’t approve of. She says that they should be
reading Dickens’s books. Once Aidian bit her and once he kicked her. She was
hurt physically and emotionally. Tine being the oldest always had to do the
right thing. Sometimes when she wanted to say something she knew she had to do
the good thing even if Aunt Marsha would just yell back. It was like that until
one day when Aunt Marsha threw Aidian`s comics in the trash and took them to the
dump. When Aidian found out he ran out to their tree house and wouldn’t come
down. Aunt Marsha yelled at him to come down but then felt bad and so she tried
to climb the tree house but what happened next changed their relationship with
Aunt Marsha forever.
I liked this book it was very funny and it was
written as though this was the life of someone. It’s really interesting how Aunt
Marsha is the villain from the beginning and then it changes over one event. I
would recommend this to 5 and 6th graders.
~ Lillian Ayana, grade 6, W. S. Guy School
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