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| View Larger Image | The Middle of Somewhere
by J.B. Cheaney
| | List Price: | $15.99 | | Price: | $10.87 | | You Save: | $5.12 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 73829 | | Studio: | Knopf Books for Young Readers | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 | | Number Of Pages: | 224 | | Publication Date: | May 08, 2007 | | Publisher: | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
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Product Description
Veronica Sparks is hitting the road! She has practically memorized Seize the Way: Ten Weeks to SuperSize Your Life! and she is going to shake the dust of her little town off her shoes and see the world!
Well, someday. For now she's hitting the road in an RV with her cantankerous grandfather at the wheel and her hyperactive little brother in the backseat. Ronnie's grandfather is a wind prospector, and they are heading across Kansas in search of a good stiff breeze. Okay, so it's not the trip of her dreams. But with her newly affirmatized attitude, Ronnie figures that travelling somewhere is better than travelling nowhere. That is, until her little brother manages to disappear into thin air. . . .
On one weird, windy, wild ride across the prairie, Ronnie discovers that there are some things you just can't plan for or seize control of—but that sometimes a little chaos is just what a girl needs. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 6 reviews)
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Funny and admirable--you'll want to read it again! 
"None of this that I'm about to tell you would have happened if my mother hadn't found that squirrel in the toilet." Twelve year-old Veronica Sparks hooks the reader into her story--and wow! does she have a story to tell! Mom breaks her knee in the squirrel incident, becomes bedridden for a few months, and implores her father, "Pop", to take his two grandchildren with him for a few weeks (it is the start of summer vacation) in his brand new RV as he goes scouting for wind-power-generating sites, his new endeavor. Ronnie (Veronica) has just read "Sieze the Way: Ten Weeks to Supersize Your Life" and intends to broaden her horizons. Quotes from the book lead the chapters until Ronnie culls her own quotes from her experiences. Funny stuff! A cantankerous motorcycle-riding grandpa, a 7 year-old brother with full blown ADHD, a road trip across Kansas (and you thought Kansas was flat and dull..), a stowaway dog, and then the disappearance of the little boy and Pop's and Ronnie's scramble to find him, leave the reader with much admiration for this young woman-to-be who keeps her cool, sees situations for what they are, makes no judgments. Readers are satisfied, knowing in confidence that there is a little bit of Ronnie Sparks in them.
June 07, 2008 | |
LOVED this book
I was once the older sister of an ADD brother and I found this book hysterically accurate. (Sorry, my dear brother!) The adventure caught my attention right away and carried me right on through all the mayhem. This is a great book!
December 27, 2007 | |
Get ready for a fun wild ride!
Funny and fast moving, Cheaney's new novel follows the adventures of Ronnie and her younger ADHD brother as they travel across Kansas with their grumpy grandfather. The chapter headings - optimistic affirmations from a book Ronnie has read - provide positive teaching opportunities.
October 19, 2007 | |
During their long journey she will re-discover the meaning of family
J.B. Cheaney's THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE tells of Ronnie, who's hitting the road in an RV with her grandfather at the wheel. During their long journey she will re-discover the meaning of family and learn new lessons about sibling importance and her own place in the world in this moving story of travel and new worlds.
July 10, 2007 | |
Super Sized reading fun!
J.B. Cheaney supersized my reading pleasure this summer with her latest book that includes something for everyone. Take an RV, throw in a cranky grandpa, an ADHD little brother, and a half grown girl(yearning to "Sieze the Way"), and your bound for adventure and misadventure. Kansas? That's right next door. I feel a road trip coming on. Thanks, Ms. Cheaney!
July 03, 2007 | |
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