Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

Seriously, though. It’s taken me an embarrassingly long time to review Lu, the fourth (and final?) book in Reynolds’ “Track” series, but I’m pretty sure it was my favorite of them all. (I say pretty sure because I can’t SWEAR I loved it more than Ghost.) Lu’s baby-sister-to-be and his re-focusing of his relationship with his father make for a story with substance and heart, while the tales of his mother’s fruit business cracked me up; I loved every thread of Lu‘s plot.* If you have a middle grader, you should be reading this series.

It’s as simple as that.

*Okay, so I wouldn’t have chosen the ending–it still worked.