This took me a while to get through, but it was a really fun little book. (Except for the end. Oh. My. Gosh. Wow. My heart. Ugh.) It was pretty slow moving, but I did enjoy getting to kind of pick it up at a slower pace and read a bit here and there throughout the semester.

Would have given it three stars for plot (there wasn't much of it, but I didn't actually mind) but the /form/ was just exquisite. I'm still kind of trying to figure it out. Was it a verse novel? A prose novel? A mixture of the two? Kind of yes, I think? I would really like to know what Creech calls it (i.e. if she has a name for the genre). I've certainly never read a book like it before, and it was delightful.

It was a younger book, like her other verse novels, /Love that Dog/ and /Hate that Cat/, so the main joy for me was definitely in the form. I'm giving this to my little brother (an avid Creech fan) and I have a feeling he'll really enjoy it though. Definitely recommended for struggling readers, as I think the form is unique enough to be engaging where the plot is lagging.