This book has a good story-line and creates interesting sub-plots. The children don't obey very quickly, but the parents always get on to them, and according to the gerbil's POV, their behavior is unacceptable. Mild swearing throughout makes it unsuitable for kids under 12, but I'm not sure a 13 year old would be too interested in the childish escapades. Too bad the author had to ruin a perfectly good book with language.
This is book one in a series of I think 3. The books are long, almost 200 pages, so I was hoping they would be suitable for EJ. It took me about 4 hours to read it (mom style, you know, being interrupted every so often). I reviewed it on Amazon: This book has a good story-line and creates interesting sub-plots. The children don't obey very quickly, but the parents always get on to them, and according to the gerbil's POV, their behavior is unacceptable. Mild swearing throughout makes it unsuitable for kids under 12, but I'm not sure a 13 year old would be too interested in the childish escapades. Too bad the author had to ruin a perfectly good book with language. Other than the language, which was quite pervasive, I did enjoy the story. I think if I find one at the thrift store, I'll buy it and marker out the bad words. I could totally see EJ reading it multiple times. I haven't read the other two books in the series, and I probably won't unless we buy them--to mark out the bad words.
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Ali
6/22/2013 03:26:20 am
I hate it when they do that! It's so unnecessary!
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Mom
6/23/2013 01:07:03 pm
I remember marking out bad words for you to read when you were young--can't remember what book now though!
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