There is a line near the end of the story that completely applies to this book- "don't judge a book by its cover". We've all heard it before and they are talking about people in the story - but it is absolutely true for this book. The cover is horrible. I probably wouldn't have picked this up if it weren't for the fact that Karen Day is a local author- AND she mentioned the local public librarians and one of my fellow school librarians in the acknowledgments Very cool.