Title: The Great Good Summer
Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Summary: It is summer vacation, and Ivy is home with her dad, worrying about her mother who has run away with a preacher, Hallelujah Dave, to the Florida Panhandle for the summer, to "grow more religious" but after not hearing from her for weeks, Ivy begins to wonder why she really left.
As Iris goes through her boring summer days, consisting of babysitting for a neighbor and going to the park to watch Paul Dobbs, a classmate, fly his model aircrafts.
But then the summer takes a turn for the better and less-boring. Ivy and Paul get together and begin hatching a plan to go and find Ivy's mother and to visit a space launch before the whole launching idea is put away for good. Together they escape to the Florida Panhandle and go on a wild adventure to find a missing mother and to fulfill a dream of seeing a spacecraft.
Comments: I liked this book a lot. I liked how the author was able to get across that Hallelujah Dave was a scam, without making it seem like all preachers are like that. I also like how Ivy was her own person and was not afraid to take an adventure, and I also liked Paul because he was not the totally stereotypical boy classmate. Another thing I liked was that Ivy and Paul never really got "romantic" with each other in that way - they were able to have a boy-and-girl friendship without any of that "love" stuff. :P That seems few and far between in a lot of books nowadays, so I was pleased.
The book would be great for 8+ probably, because other than the mother running away with the preacher (nothing inappropriate occurs, and Ivy's mother does indeed have every intention of coming home again), there is not really any "iffy" content to be had.
Rating: 5 stars
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