Content: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Ada Ru's perfect summer would be spent at Disney World - but this summer, the year between 6th grade and 7th grade is going to be a disaster. Her father will be teaching at a university in Scotland, and the family is moving there - for the whole summer! At first she hates everything, the weather, the food and especially her new home - an apartment in what used to be an Abby. But then she meets 10yo Hammy Bean, the "captain" of a tour boat that takes tourists out onto the Loch looking for Nessie - the Loch Ness Monster. Soon, with another summer transplant - Dax, from New York - Ada Ru and Hammy Bean join the chase to prove to the world the monster exists. But there's a problem, Hammy Bean is Blind.
It was fun to read the dialect aloud - Hammy was such a great character, and I really liked how he was a regular kid who just did things differently because he was blind. I loved Ada Ru's relationship with her Scottish cousin as well as the way she worries about what everyone is doing in Denver without her. A great adventure too, as you can't look for the Loch Ness Monster without going out on the water.
Lisa Librarian
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