Piper Reed Book Review #2

TITLE: Piper Reed, Clubhouse Queen

(originally titled Piper Reed, the Great Gypsy)

AUTHOR: Kimberly Willis Holt

COPYRIGHT: 2008

ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company, LLC

NUMBER OF PAGES: 152

PLOTLINE: Piper Reed comes up with the best idea she’s ever had: her club will have a pet show in July. She plans to teach her dog, Bruna, some amazing tricks and win first prize.

But Bruna is more than a little reluctant to learn new tricks. As a matter of fact, she won’t perform even the simplest trick unless Piper’s two-year-old neighbor, Brady, tells her to.

Piper doesn’t think she can win first place now, but she really wants to do something that will make her dad proud when he comes back from Navy ship duty. And how can she devote extra time to teaching Bruna tricks when her teacher assigned her eight books to read during the summer?

*****

“Sam surprised me and said, ‘Yeah, let’s get the saddest {Christmas} tree and make it happy.’

‘A Charlie Brown tree,’ I said.

Mom eased down the trunk of the pretty tree. ‘That would be different.’ ” - Piper Reed, Clubhouse Queen