The Small Adventures of Popeye and Elvis
Barbara O’Connor
Frances Foster, 2009
$16.99, Hardcover
978-0374370558
April 12th, 2012
Genre:
Realistic
Age: 8+
Description:
Nothing ever happens in Fayette,
South Carolina. Popeye’s whole
life has been boring. Things start to look up when the Jewell’s RV gets stuck
in the mud and Popeye meets Elvis, the eldest boy. Elvis takes Popeye out of
his comfort zone by going on a mini adventure when the boys discover small
notes in boats made out of Yoo Hoo boxes floating down the creek by Popeye’s
house. Defying his grandmother, Popeye and Elvis go downstream and discover the
maker of the boats—the oddball Starletta. Eventually the RV gets out of the mud
but now Popeye, while he’ll miss Elvis, has made a new friend and he’ll give
adventures to someone else by putting his own notes in boxes and sending them
down the creek.
Opinion: I
picked this book up (despite hating the cover—no tween will pick up this book
with this hideous cover) because I thought I recalled reading good reviews
about it when it first came out. The book, to me, doesn’t get any better past
the bad cover—it was stupid simple and horribly boring.
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