It's the last day of summer in the rather strange town of Fry in equally strange Logan County, Virginia and Otto (Octavius) Alston is up early and wants to make the most of it. Some of the situations may seem to go over the head of a young audience, but you want kids to be challenged a bit through reading.The fun and craziness of this book will keep the pages turning as I believe most children will stay curious enough to see how it all ends, and that cover, yes! Thanks to Netgalley for an advanced DRC. So the zaniness of restoring time is replete with all kinds of references to time, providing sneaky inspiration for young readers.Īll this is written in a fast paced madcap type of way, designed to catch and hold the attention of young readers.

They will have to enlist their neighborhood rivals, the epic Ellison twins, bright science-centered young girls, who by the way currently have one more city key than Otto and Sheed.

The cousin team has their greatest challenge ahead of them, to restore time and put it back in its proper place. And in this latest challenge, time has been manipulated to the point to where it has been frozen leaving the town in flux. REVIEW👉🏿Sheed and Otto are amateur sleuths in their small town and each time they help solve a town mystery they are awarded a key to the city. And to this end we have the adventures of Sheed and Otto in The Last Day of Summer.

We often say we need diverse books, and that diversity is necessary not only in racial representation but also in variety of stories we tell.

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