Friday, April 11, 2014

The Candy Smash



The Candy Smash by Jacqueline Davies  232 pages
This is the fourth book in The Lemonade War series.  These books stand alone pretty well, although the earlier books are also good and kids would probably want to read the whole series once they got started.  Jessie is getting ready to publish her extra-credit newspaper for her class at school.  The biggest problem is that she doesn’t have a good front page story.  Then a mystery happens in their own room.  Someone is leaving boxes of candy hearts on people’s desks.  Jessie decides to try to investigate and figure out who is leaving the hearts.  While she’s trying to fill up the rest of the newspaper she decides to conduct a survey on love, anonymously, of course, and publish the results.  Meanwhile, her brother, Evan, has his own problems.  People think that he and his friend, Megan, like like each other.  And maybe they do, but no one admits that stuff in 4th grade.  This is a good real life type of a story that will appeal to a wide variety of kids.

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