Franny Parker

Title: Franny Parker

 

Author: Hannah Roberts McKinnon

 

Summary: Franny Parker is a 13 year old living on a farm with her family in Oklahoma. She loves animals and decides to begin an animal rehabilitation/hospital center. As she is beginning to rescue the animals she finds and comes to love, a new family moves in next door to her; a boy and his mother. The boy, Lucas, is very interested in animals too and the two become friends.

However, Lucas's abusive father comes around, and things begin to change, and then, Lucas goes missing. As mystery and tragedy take over her summer, she learns how to help not only animals - but others - in need.

Comments: I LOVED this book. Franny was such a likeable character and her family was quite interesting too. I liked the friendship between Franny and Lucas; it was just two friends together - there was not really any romance or any other things like that that would turn me off the book. The book was beautifully written and I really, really enjoyed it. Just because of the details of the abusive father, I would rate this probably 10+ or maybe even 12+ - judge the maturity level of the child reading the book first.

Complaints: None. This is a favorite now!

 

Rating: 5 stars!