***FIFTH-GRADE GUEST BLOGGER***
The book I read was Kristy and the Mystery Admirer, by Ann Martin. Kristy is a girl in StoneyBrook middle school. She loves sports and rarely wears skirts or dresses. (For the Spring Fling she dressed up as a lobster with Bart.)
But I didn’t like it as a mystery at all. It wasn’t mysterious. It had things happen like, Bart walked Kristy home from their baseball game, then for the next two weeks she got secret admirer letters. Hmmm, I wonder whom those are from? Or, Kristy brought her secret admirer letters to school with her friends and a really mean girl named Cokie overheard then talking about them. Then, Kristy’s mystery admirer letters stopped coming. Then, really scary, mean and just plain awful letters came instead. What about those? Who are they from? It was like Ann Martin was giving away so many hints, that the answer to the mystery was obvious.
In the end, Bart admitted that he sent the nice ones, and Kristy found out that Cokie had sent the mean ones, and Bart and Kristy lived happily ever after, blah blah blah. But I seriously think you should not read this book while looking for a good story. The rest of Ann M. Martin’s books are great, I read and enjoy them all the time, that is why I choose this one for a book review, figuring it would be interesting, but I guess not.
This is not a very interesting book, and there are many more awesome books you could sit down and absolutely love. Boxcar Children, Hardy boys, Goosebumps, Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter are all great for this reason. Judy Blume books are wonderful too. But since this is a bad story, I suggest you find something better to read.
(Editor’s note: She doesn’t mince words, does she?)
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11:36 pm
Sorry you had to finish reading it in order to write a report.
(I turn off movies, put down books, and don’t finish food when I discover I don’t like the offering.)
At least I know better than to buy it for my granddaughter.
8:05 am
It did stink I had to finish reading that book.
I just suspected that it would be good. Do you know of any good mysteries?
Darla