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257 pp.
| Peachtree |
August, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-1-56145-634-5$15.95
(4)
4-6
Illustrated by
Frank W. Dormer.
Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Miller's utterly believable wish to explore his town's fair on his own is thwarted first by adults and then by responsibility for his younger sister and her friends. A mistakenly eaten pie and a possible ghost add mild suspense, but the preteen's smallest concerns are the most identifiable and add the most humor. Rudimentary line drawings feel younger than the novel's characters.