This is the newest book in The Lemonade War series. Brother and sister Evan and Jessie Treski
have very different reactions to things.
When their mom plans a trip away for a week for work, Evan isn’t
thrilled, but he thinks that his mom needs to get away for a while and he
understands that she really needs to take all of the work that she can
get. Jessie is upset that her mother is
leaving because she really hates change but is trying to be understanding. When their father shows up unexpectedly right
before their mother is ready to leave and an unexpected turn of events means
that their babysitter is unavailable at the last minute, their dad volunteers
to stay for the week. Their mother
reluctantly agrees. Jessie is
thrilled. Evan is also apprehensive,
because he understands, as his mother does, that his dad is not very
reliable. Still, everything seems mostly
ok at first. Their dad is on the phone a
lot with work related things but he still finds some time to spend with
them. Until the day that their mom is
scheduled to come back and their father leaves
a few hours before her return with a hurricane about to hit and Jessie
and Evan have to figure out what to do. A
good story about family and self-reliance, with a good amount of adventure thrown
in at the end, this book will appeal to a large kid audience.
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