A child's Review.....

Owen Jester is being marketed in the YA category, but in my opinion, it should be in the Children’s section. Miliana would love this book as a bedtime story, and she is 5, or is she 15? When I talk with her on the phone, it’s hard to tell sometimes. Anyway, as I was saying, this was a fun, fast read and I enjoyed the characters, especially the relationship between Viola (the nosy neighbor) and Owen.

I recommend this read to children under the age of 12, and as a read-out-loud at bedtime for the younger ones even though there are no pictures, and if I was, say 10 (?), I would have to give this book a 4 star rating.

It conjured up memories of my own childhood: jumping over the chain link fence at the cemetery; digging a fort in the Orange Grove field next to Lowell’s house; playing marbles in the dirty alley next to the railroad tracks; and the time when Donald and ‘Eddie’ made water balloons to throw. We didn’t exactly run wild, but we did break a rule or two. Ah, the best laid plans of long hot summer days.