Review: Real life - written in a real way!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2013
This story is funny, cute, outrageous, entertaining, sad, frustrating and riveting. There are thousands of adjectives I could add to the carefully chosen few above, but the one I believe sums the book up, is `REAL.'A great message of hope and determination, told in a realistic way which draws the reader into an era of struggle and reconstruction after the war. The kids are just kids growing up in the only world they know, Blountmere Street. The main character faces enormous challenges for someone his age but he never gives up on those he loves to come through for him. The story-line is so believable that one can't help knowing it is built on actual events.I loved this book up to the last page. I could not wait to get the next one in the trilogy and now I eagerly await the final one.  I highly recommend this and give it a deserving 5Plus gold star.