If not, her uncle will be made aware of her theft. Instead, Tara is forced to accept a deal where she collects 13 different items from the people of the town and brings them to the store before her thirteenth birthday. The mysterious proprietor refuses to buy it because she can't pay what the comic is worth and she's the one who sold to her uncle. Not wanting to admit the failure to her parents or her aunt and uncle, Tara takes matters into her own hands, stealing a rare issue of The Fantastic Four from her uncle's collection and trying to sell it at the local curiosity shop. Tara's luck goes from bad worse to when she's robbed of the money her parents gave her for the summer and her mother's prized iPod while on the train to the Willow Falls. This is instead of going with her parents to Madagascar to study the lemur, something she had been looking forward to doing. I've found so many inconsistent plots.but I couldn't find a single one in this.īottom line: I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone looking for a fun read.Īfter a failed attempt to steal a stuffed goat from the vice principal's office ends in the vice principal getting pepper-sprayed and soon-to-be-thirteen-year-old Tara suspended for the final two weeks of the year (in an attempt to fit in with other kids her age, Tara refuses to give up her accomplices), Tara is exiled to the small town of Willow Falls to spend her summer.
As a reader, I tend to latch on to little details and make sure they're consistent through the whole book. The plot was engaging and had lots of twists and turns. It made me laugh out loud, not once, not twice, but at least five times! I love books that can do that without being Dear Dumb Diaries or comic books. I would recommend reading this immediately after 11 Birthdays and Finally, though, because Mass alludes to the plots of those two books many times, and I guarantee you'll be completely lost if this is the first book of the series that you read. One of the things I love about this series is that the books aren't all centered around one or two kids instead, they're centered around the whole town.
I loved Tara's character - I could completely relate to it. She totally isn't, and the book makes that clear. As a fencer & self-proclaimed math geek, I take issue with the statement that Emily is bratty. (Let me just point out that the blurb on my book is different than the one on this webpage. The cover is eye-catching, and the blurb was enough to catch my interest. I got it from the library because I liked reading 11 Birthdays and Finally, and love Wendy Mass's writing style.
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