This book was different than I expected. Based on its very imaginative cover, I was expecting something with fantastical elements, like magical realism. However, this book is very much realistic fiction and a nice example of the genre. The narrator's voice rings very true for a 9 or 10 year-ol...
Reminds me of a Cleary book but more juiced up, story is set in a small Southern town. The special thing about the author O'Connor is one of her characters is on the last of life journeys, old age, the Grandfather is bed ridden listening to Owen's adventures. Viola the rejected girl character end...
Simple story of a boy who is bored in the summer in his rural town. When he turns a corner and seeing a gleaming motor home stuck in the mud. As if that wasn't great enough it is full of kids. One in particular befriends him (elvis). And the two begin exploring and stumble upon a small advent...
I would say that you'd have to be a ding-dong doodlebrain to not like Barbara O'Connor's writing and On the Road to Mr. Mineo's, but that would just be rude. Instead, I'll tell you why I do.First of all, she uses words like ding-dong doodlebrain. How great is that? Second, her characters are s...