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I absolutely loved this early chapter book about Piper Green, who lives on Peek-a-Boo Island with her family.
She is starting grade two, but while wearing monkey earmuffs. She misses her older brother, Erik. Since he gave them to her, she does not want to take them off--even when her new teacher Ms. Arabella, asks her too. “I wouldn`t like to send you to the principal`s office on your first day of second grade,” she tells her.
Even her parents want her to take them off. She tells them yes, but in her head she says “That’s what they think... These earmuffs are not leaving this head.”
There are several memorable quotes that I found in the narration, the dialogue, and the descriptions. Piper says of her classmate Jacob, He doesn’t say much, that’s for sure. Sometimes I wonder if Jacob’s just pretending to listen while he thinks about lobsters. But then other times, he listens so hard that he can hear things I’m only thinking in my brain.
Piper says this about Jacob, too: “He`s the guy in charge of the dead fish.” The lobster industry employs many people on Piper`s small island in Maine.
Another interesting character is Leo, Piper`s younger brother. He is married to a piece of paper named Michelle, and they have three children, which are yellow Post-it notes.
I liked reading about the eight children on the island taking the Maddie Rose lobster boat to school to the main island. Mr. Grindle drives the boat and his wife leaves baked goods from her bakery on the boat for the children to eat. The really, really pretty classmate of Piper`s is named Allie O`Malley, and we learn about her beautiful new purple mermaid life jacket.
This first book in the series introduces the Fairy Tree. It`s the kind of tree where if you take something from it, you must leave something just as treasured. Piper does this for the first time, thanks to the guidance of her neighbor Mrs. Pennypocket, and her luck seems to change. Her brother comes home to visit, and she starts to enjoy second grade.
This is my new favorite chapter book for children ages 7-10, and I will be recommending it as often as I can to the families that come into the library.
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Piper Green and the Fairy Tree