Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
6th grader Kick Winter is staying with her grandmother in Bohring, Georgia - home to 453 people, 2053 alligators, and one monster curse - while Kick’s parents are away with their jobs. Kick just wants to fit in at school, but it’s hard to blend in when your grandmother is the town psychic and your cousin is dressed in weirdly frilly dresses for school. In order to survive the school year, Kick announces she is psychic, and soon has to start using her science obsession/psychic abilities, to figure out why students are disappearing as the curse seems to be coming true.
Kick is a charming character and her struggles to fit in while also discovering truths about others is relatable. Each chapter title is an applicable if appropriately vague, prediction from Grandma Missouri. The Swamp, the Hollows, and Bohring make for a great setting, and there are even science experiments to try in the back of the book. With this fun read, may the curse be with you.
Michelle in the Middle
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