Title: Last in a Long Line of Rebels
Author: Lisa Lewis Tyre
Pages: 279
Finished: November 3, 2017
First Sentence: From the diary of Louise Duncan Mayhew
Summary: Louise Mayhew has the most boring summers ever. So when she prays on an old family Bible for something exciting to happen, she's hoping for something a little better than normal. What she gets is a summer learning the village wants her house, the discovery that her ancestor apparently stole some gold and murdered someone, and the knowledge that that gold has never been found. So she and her friends take it upon themselves to find the treasure and save the house.
Thoughts: Ugh. I feel like I read the same twenty books every year when it comes to the Caudills. The kids are super smart. They find the gold. They don't suffer any consequences for the things they do to get the gold. They're shocked that their ancestors owned slaves in the 1800s (they live in Tennessee). Middle grade, but not really worth it.
Read for my Caudill Challenge.
Read for my Caudill Challenge.
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