LUCY ROSE Big on Plans

Summer stretches ahead, and Lucy Rose is ready. Tara Sands captures Lucy's determined and urgent first-person point of view in delivering Lucy's every thought and plan as she shares art activities at the playground, navigates summer friendships, wages battle with squirrels who would like to eat her grandparents' apricots, counts down to her birthday, and goes on a special outing with her dad. Sands is a convincing, invincible, and egocentric charmer. Tenderly she helps Lucy acknowledge the one thing she would like most to plan--the reconciliation of her parents. Fans of Junie B. Jones or Judy Moody will find a compatriot in Lucy Rose. A.R. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 06]