Unclaimed Treasures

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
My Description: I didn't like it much. It's about a girl named Willa mostly, though it does include her twin brother Nicholas and their friend Horace.
The story was confusing, and it was hard to get what was going on. It took me a while to actually start liking Willa a little bit, and since I like liking the main character right away because their such a wonderful person, the story didn't quite take me in... and of course, it didn't help that it was so confusing. I really didn't like it that much, but maybe it would appeal to someone. I don't know.
Back-Of-The-Book Description: Oh, to do something special, something extraordinary! That, and to find a true love...
Willa was always watching for her true love, in every line outside the movie theater, or ice rink or at the bank. He would, she knew, be tall and solemn.
Willa does fall in love, but it isn't at all the way she dreamed it would be. And just what is extraordinary? Willa, her twin brother Nicholas, and their new friend Horace Morris all wonder about that. Willa's mother will have a new baby soon. That seems ordinary to Willa. Horace's mother has left to "seek her fortune." That, Willa thinks, is extraordinary. There are other new friends: Old Pepper, ancient and wrinkled; Horace's maiden aunts, the Unclaimed Treasures who play Beethoven by the garden; and Horace's father, tall and solemn.
What is ordinary, what is not? Old Pepper knows. And by the end of the long summer of laughter and talk under the old apple tree, Willa and Nicholas know too. And each does something quite extraordinary.
Starting Date: March 16th
Ending Date: March 19th
Reading Time: Four days
Pages: 118
Recommendations: Too... young girls... I don't know. You'll have to decide yourself. I didn't really like it.
Writing Rating: 4
Story Rating: 3
Overall Rating: 4

Book #19 of '08