Ida B is a faithful believer that there is never enough time for fun. So she is pretty content that she is homeschooled and can spend every other free second outside with freedom, the trees, and the brook. It is the perfect life for Ida B. But not everything can last forever. When things start to change drastically, Ida B's current life is burned to ashes, Ida B turns into a cold, hard, black stone of what she used to be. And when a person't heart changes, so do their plans. And Ida B's plan's change remarkably from the loving, joyful child that she once was. But there is still that part left inside of her- that perky, laughing alive part of her. So it really is a battle against herself as much as it is against everything that changed her life. Yet there's people out there that really are intent on trying to help Ida B. People like Ms. Washington, with her soft voice and her radiating kindness. Things that thaw her small, cold heart a little.
Katherine Hannigan wrote a very moving novel about a girl named Ida B who is determined to change when everything else changes. She showed how Ida changed from a carefree girl that was filled with joy to an empty shell of what she used to be- her heart dark and cold, and small. And every day, every hour, every minute that passes, she slowly looses the Ida B that was there before. Yet maybe, Ida may realize that she is much more than this shell she has reduced herself to be. Maybe she may be just in time to stop disaster and to make things alright again. I think I really really liked this book a lot because of the fact that it was in key with reality. The anger, the hurt, the love, and the friendship all seemed right. Because if you were in Ida's shoes, you know that you would feel that too. Like the overwhelming calamity of the situation, the override of bad things, and bad omens to come. Because if you were Ida B, you would feel that too. Ida B was really close to what real kids are like- they do things that hurt them, and others, they say things that they don't mean but just come out, and the book really sheds light on who you are. And most of it comes from the fact that you are like Ida B too. There are things that make you more than mad, but just boiling over with hate for a person, you have times when you hate someone so bad, that you want to do something that will hurt them bad, and you have times when things happen that you don't want. 'If life gives you a lemon, make a lemonade.' But that's hard. Really hard. I loved Ida B because she was not perfect- in fact she was so far from perfect that it's a perfect analysis of a person. Ida B was the closest character that I read about that was so close to being real.
*** I give this book a 10 out of 10. I really think that this is a must read for everyone and a masterpiece for everyone to enjoy. ***
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