The Hidden Boy by Jon Berkeley

The Flint family, a strange collection of relatives and friends, win a trip on Captain Bontoc's Blue Moon mobile for a grand holiday!  

Once they arrive at Bell Hoot strange things come about!

Bea Flint finds that she is the only one that can save her brother!

Grab The Hidden Boy, a comfy seat and see if she is successful!!

I recently read this book, and I was pleasantly surprised.  At first I thought it was a little slow, and a little weird! :-)   

However, once I got into the book, I didn't want to put it down!

Its got a lot of imagination and charm! a little mystery and some twists and turns!

I would recommend this book to a young reader, maybe 9-11 years old.

If you want an entertaining easy read, this is a great book.

If your child likes fantasy-mystery I think this would be a great book!

4th of July Family Fun!

I hope that you enjoyed the 4th with your family and friends like we did!!  

We went to our local mall and danced the night away to one of our favorite local bands, BOOM! Kenetic!! 

 Check them out at www.boomkenetic.com

The girls and my husband and I loved them!!!

I think they have a new "groupee"

The boys, however, were not as impressed....

Of course, we had to have snacks!

YUM-O!!!

Then it was time for fireworks to start...so we got out the noise cancelling headphones, turned on the tunes and put them on my sweet girls ears...  one giant BOOM!!  later....

And here we are in the van.  Boo.  Once safe inside the confines of the van, (did I mention we couldn't open the windows, so it was HOT in there) she sat in my lap NOT watching the fireworks.  

The rest of the family, sat outside in their lawn chairs in the parking lot and watched with awe.

Happy Independence Day!!!!!

A trip to the Library!

This summer we have made a several trips to the public library.  Today was our trip this week!

My kids seem to devour books!  We all love reading, so we make frequent trips to the library!

We even have a special Thirty-one tote with Library Books embroidered on it just for our trips!!

Courtney like to bring her mega blocks barbie stuff to play with. She didn't want to sit with her siblings...she is funny.

We also ran into a sweet friend!  She volunteers at the library a couple times a week!  Such a sweet girl!!!

Love that my kids LOVE reading!!!!

Check back later for some book reviews!!!

My sweet girl likes to check out her books all by herself!