Melody Murray's Books

9/2012 Stet12/2007 Re-reading this book hardly counts as reading, since I know it like the back of my hand. The entire series is so well-written and just plain fun that revisiting it is a treat. Lovelace's essential voice is unchanged throughout the series, yet she writes in a tone designed to engage readers of the characters' ages especially. My favorite part of this book is where Tib's family's "hired girl" Matilda catches them at mischief:'"The dining room looks all right now," Betsy added. "Doesn't it, Matilda?"Matilda looked at the tidy dining room. She swept it with a stony glance."I hear," she said meaningly, "that Mrs. Ray's kitchen looked nice too after you kept house for her one day."And she stalked back into the kitchen.'One thing I noticed this time through is that in the books, the Big Hill is described as ascending past Betsy's back yard, but when I was in Mankato it went up past Tacy's. Is this my imagination, fellow convention-goers?