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The Summer of Bad Ideas

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In this funny, big-hearted friendship story, perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Linda Urban, twelve-year-old Edie and her impossibly cool cousin, Rae, set out to complete a mysterious list of “Good Ideas for Summertime” that their eccentric late grandmother wrote back when she was their age.

But good ideas? Most of them seem like bad ideas. Reckless. Foolish. Ridiculous. Still, by accomplishing everything on the list, rule-abiding Edie feels certain that she can become the effortlessly brave adventurer she dreams of being, just like her daring cousin and bold grandmother. For this one summer at least, bad ideas are the best shot she has at becoming who she wants to be.

Bad Idea Number It’s time for a new set of rules.

301 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 2, 2017

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Kiera Stewart

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Kiera Stewart is a writer for teens and tweens. Her qualifications include never having gotten wisdom teeth, and having the same best friend since eighth grade.

Kiera is the author of three novels: FETCHING; HOW TO BREAK A HEART; and THE SUMMER OF BAD IDEAS. You can learn more and connect with Kiera at www.kierastewart.com.

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26 reviews
March 29, 2017
Edie and her family are heading to Florida to live at their grandmothers house for 2 weeks since their grandmother has died. As they arrived Edie meat her cousin Rae and they found a list of "good ideas for summertime" that their grandmother wrote when she was their age. These "good ideas" seamed more like "bad ideas" because they were crazy stunts and some were even dangerous. Edie dreams of being that adventurous person like her cousin Rae and grandmother and maybe this summer, doing these "bad ideas", may help her become who she wants to be. This was a good book and I would recommend this to adventure people and it's more for girls.
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940 reviews44 followers
May 14, 2019
4,5 Sterne

Bei einem Blick in das neue Frühjahrsprogramm des Carlsen Verlags ist mir „Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer“ sofort ins Auge gesprungen. Das Cover finde ich wunderhübsch, es verströmt so ein richtig schönes Sommer-Abenteuer-Feeling. Der Klappentext sprach mich auch auf Anhieb an, sodass für mich sehr schnell feststand, dass das Buch ganz dringend bei mir einziehen muss.

Dieser Sommer wird garantiert der furchtbarste ihres Lebens werden, da ist sich die 12-jährige Edie sicher. Anstatt mit ihrer besten Freundin Taylor in einem genialen Sommercamp abzuhängen, wird sie dazu gezwungen zusammen mit ihrer nervigen Familie das Haus ihrer kürzlich verstorbenen Oma Petunia auf Vordermann zu bringen. Die Gluthitze Floridas, Mücken ohne Ende, ständig umgeben von ihrer Familie, die einfach nur peinlich ist, das große Risiko, Schlangen und Alligatoren zu begegnen...tja, so sieht also Edies Sommer aus. Ihr einziger Lichtblick: Rae, ihre mega coole Cousine, die einfach nur total hip ist und sogar schon mal im Fernsehen war! Zusammen werden die Mädchen auf eine Liste ihrer Oma stoßen, auf der lauter tolle Ideen für einen guten Sommer stehen. Edie und Rae beschließen, die Punkte abzuarbeiten, werden allerdings schnell feststellen, dass die Ideen irgendwie doch nicht so prickelnd und eigentlich total albern sind. Zum Beispiel „einen Chameur küssen“. Was hat sich Oma Petunia denn dabei gedacht? Manchmal sind es aber genau solche Ideen, die einen Sommer zum reinsten Abenteuer machen...

Ich habe hier genau das zu lesen bekommen, was ich mir erhofft hatte. Die Geschichte, die einen hier erwartet, ist warmherzig, liebenswert-fröhlich, witzig und sommerlich. „Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer“ ist einfach ein total schönes Gute-Laune-Buch, das einen bestens unterhält und durchweg mitfiebern lässt. Ich bin hier nur so durch Seiten geflogen und habe das Buch innerhalb eines Tages durchgelesen. Der Schreibstil von Kiera Stewart hat mir sehr gut gefallen, er ist locker-leicht, humorvoll und liest sich super angenehm.

Womit mich die Autorin ganz besonders begeistern konnte, waren die Charaktere.
Edie, unsere Protagonistin, aus deren Sicht wir alles in der Ich-Perspektive erfahren, ist ein ganz liebes und sympathisches junges Mädchen, die man sofort ins Herz schließen muss. Mit ihr wird sich die Zielgruppe prima identifizieren können. Sehr schön fand ich, dass man ihre Entwicklung so wunderbar mitverfolgen kann. Edie ist ein sehr unsicheres Mädchen und macht sich ständig Gedanken darüber, wie sie auf andere wirkt und ob das, was sie sagt und tut, nicht eigentlich total falsch und peinlich ist. Dies wird sich aber, wie bereits erwähnt, noch ändern. Edie wird sich in diesem Sommer ihren Ängsten stellen, sie wird an mehr Selbstbewusstsein gewinnen und über sich hinauswachsen.

Die anderen Nebencharaktere habe ich ebenfalls ganz fest in mein Herz geschlossen. Allen voran Edies Familie, die so herrlich schräg und ungewöhnlich ist. Ganz besonders Edies jüngere Zwillingsgeschwister Beatrice und Henry, die beide die reinsten Intelligenzbestien sind. Ich fand die zwei richtig lustig und musste ständig über sie schmunzeln.
Wer mich auch bestens unterhalten hat, war Onkel A.J. Er ist der Vater von Edies Cousine Rae und ein ziemlich gechillter Typ. Ich glaube, so einen entspannten Papa hätten die meisten Kinder nur zu gerne. ;)
Rae, muss ich gestehen, war mir nicht immer sympathisch. Sie kam mir manchmal ein bisschen verwöhnt und eingebildet vor. Zum Ende hin habe ich aber auch sie noch sehr lieb gewonnen. Rae ist abenteuerlustig, mutig und für ihr Alter sehr reif und erwachsen. So trinkt sie zum Beispiel Kaffee (Edie nicht), sie besitzt ein richtiges Smartphone (Edie leider nicht, seufz) und sie verwendet gerne Zitate aus Shakespeare und Filmklassikern (Edie versteht da immer nur Bahnhof). Rae und Edie sind wirklich extrem verschieden, verstehen sich aber dennoch richtig gut. Na ja, okay, nicht immer. Es wird in dem Sommer öfters mal zu Auseinandersetzungen kommen und leider sind die beiden auch nicht immer ehrlich zueinander. Da Rae in Edies Augen so cool ist, schwindelt sie ihrer Cousine manchmal etwas vor, um interessanter und erwachsener zu wirken. Zum Beispiel, wenn es um Jungs geht. Das ist noch etwas, was Rae Edie voraus hat: Rae besitzt schon einen Freund.

„Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer“ enthält einfach eine so wundervolle Mischung aus vielen verschieden Themen. Es geht um Familie und Freundschaft, um Mut, Vertrauen, ums Verliebtsein, Ehrlichkeit, Sommer und Abenteuer. Mir hat dieser bunte Mix unheimlich gut gefallen und ich denke, dass besonders die Zielgruppe hellauf begeistert davon sein wird.

Super fand ich, dass hier auch die Liebe ein bisschen mit ins Spiel kommt. Mitchell, der Nachbarsjunge, ist nicht nur sehr nett, er ist auch ziemlich süß. Findet zumindest Edie. Besonders sein Grübchen ist so niedlich! Wie es wohl ist, Mitchell zu küssen?
Ich fand Edies Gedanken über Mitchell einfach nur Zucker und zum Schmunzeln schön. Mitchell ist übrigens auch ein toller Charakter. Ich glaube, es gab in dem Buch wirklich niemanden, den ich gar nicht leiden konnte. Sie sind allesamt einfach einzigartig, erfrischend anders und wirken durch ihre Eigenarten so authentisch und lebensecht.

Was mich richtig ins Mitfiebern gebracht hat, war das Abarbeiten von Oma Petunias Liste, auf die Edie und Rae stoßen werden. Petunia, so wird immer deutlicher, muss eine ganz außergewöhnliche Frau gewesen sein. Schon schade, dass wir Leser sie gar nicht mehr kennenlernen konnten. Die Punkte auf ihrer Liste jedenfalls geben nur zu gut wieder, wie besonders Petunia in mancher Hinsicht war.
So steht auf der Liste zum Beispiel „Im Hurrikan tanzen“ oder „Eine Schlange mit bloßen Händen anfassen“. Klingt ja schon etwas sonderbar, oder? Ob Edie und Rae es wohl schaffen werden, alle Punkte abzuarbeiten? Vor allem der Punkt mit der Schlange löst in Edies großes Unbehagen aus. Sie hat nämlich eine riesengroße Angst vor Schlangen…

So, mehr werde ich hier dann auch nicht verraten. Ich hoffe, dass ich euch das Buch schmackhaft machen konnte. Wenn ihr gerade auf der Suche nach einem schönen, fröhlichen Sommerbuch seid, gerne Kinderbücher lest, auf ungewöhnliche Eissorten steht, keine Angst vor Schlangen und Alligatoren habt und einfach Lust darauf verspürt, total sympathische und liebenswert-verrückte Charaktere kennenzulernen, solltet ihr euch unbedingt „Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer“ schnappen und loslegen mit dem Lesen! :D

Fazit: Ein wunderbares Gute-Laune-Buch, einfach nur perfekt für den Sommer! Mir hat „Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer“ richtig schöne Lesestunden beschert. Die Geschichte ist lustig, spannend, fröhlich und wunderbar sommerlich. Das Buch sprüht nur so vor Witz und Charme, enthält neben den humorvollen und abenteuerlichen Szenen aber auch welche, die einen zum Nachdenken anregen. Ganz besonders gut gefallen haben mir die vielen sympathischen Charaktere. Diese sind einfach einzigartig und teilweise so herrlich schräg. Ich kann das Buch wärmstens empfehlen, sowohl Kindern ab 11 Jahren als auch deutlich älteren Lesern, und vergebe 4,5 – hier gerundet auf 5 von 5 Sternen!
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402 reviews115 followers
October 14, 2019
Während die ganze Familie im Minivan nach Florida unterwegs ist, malt sich Edith aus, wie sie den Sommer mit ihrer besten Freundin Taylor verbringt und im Zeltlager Abenteuer erlebt.
Stattdessen muss sie gemeinsam mit ihrer Familie das Haus ihrer kürzlich verstorbenen Grossmutter Petunia auf Vordermann bringen. Die schier unerträgliche Hitze, unzählige Mücken, Petunias Reptilien-Liebe und ihre peinliche Familie machen das zu ihrem persönlichen Alptraum.

In ihrer coolen Cousine Rae findet Edie eine Leidensgenossin und ein Vorbild in Sache Mut. Gemeinsam stossen sie auf eine Liste mit Petunias guten Ideen für den Sommer 1962.
Da sie sowieso mehrere Wochen im Haus der Grossmutter festsitzen, entschliessen sie sich, die Liste 'abzuarbeiten'.

Edie ist ein sympathisches, liebes Mädchen, aber auch sehr unsicher. Sie trägt viele Ängste mit sich und fragt sich ständig, was die anderen von ihr halten. Ihre übervorsichtige Mutter trägt einiges dazu bei und dass ihre jüngeren Geschwister Zwillinge und IQ-mässig Genies sind, macht die Situation auch nicht einfacher.
So möchte Edie mit Petunias Liste nicht nur einen schönen Sommer erleben sondern vor allem über sich hinauswachsen und mutig sein. Und vor allem möchte sie ihre Freundschaft mit Taylor retten.

"Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer" ist ein schönes Jugendbuch, das mit charmanten und originellen Charaktere punktet. Jede Figur hat ihre Eigenart und ist dadurch erfrischend anders.
In der Geschichte geht es nicht nur um Familie und Freundschaft sondern auch um eine Vielfalt an Ängsten. Kiera Stewart verdeutlicht auch, dass man nicht immer mutig und cool sein muss. Es ist vor allem wichtig, ehrlich zu sein und sich und anderen nichts vorzuspielen.

"Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer" ist keine spektakuläre Geschichte. Im Gegenteil: sie ist ruhig und wird vor allem durch die vielen charmanten und eigenwilligen Charaktere getragen.

Der Schreibstil von Kiera Stewart lässt sich locker und angenehm lesen.
Die Geschichte wird aus der ich-Perspektive von Edie erzählt, so dass man einen tollen Einblick in ihre Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt erhält.

Fazit:
humorvoll, charmant, ein Sommer fürs Leben
"Dumme Ideen für einen guten Sommer" von Kiera Stewart ist ein schönes Sommerbuch, das durch seine besonderen Charaktere besticht und aufzeigt, wie unterschiedlich man mit Ängsten umgehen kann und wie man durch Freundschaft wachsen kann.
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April 30, 2017
Edith, her twin siblings and their parents are spending the summer at her grandma's house. She died recently and her will stipulates that her children fix up the house together (it's Edith's family, her uncle AJ and cousin Rae). Rae is about 50 times cooler than Edith and so she decides to reinvent herself. Step one: go by Edie instead. Step two: complete a list her grandmother made on how to have a great summer. (Except the suggestions are scary---catch a snake? Cross the swamp at night? Kiss a boy?)

This book is cute. It's perfect summer reading (though you don't have to wait til then; it'll bring summer to you!) and Edith is incredibly relatable.

Bonus points for having Rae not be so perfect either.

I would like a sequel please.
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11 reviews6 followers
September 19, 2023
this book is not for my age group and not what i would usually gravitate towards as a fourteen-year-old, so i can't rate it higher. but i can say that this is a good book for the younger shy, anxious and nervous girls out there and i'm sure the twelve-year-old me would have appreciated this book a lot. nonetheless i enjoyed the reading experience and even caught myself smiling at the wholesome and fun story. i loved edie's nerdy family, especially the twins, and the "romance" between her and mitchell has so much potential for a spin-off. i would immediately read it to be honest.
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1,323 reviews46 followers
July 22, 2020
It's a solid middle grade book about family, friendship, and growing up. The setting of Florida with the snakes and alligator is interesting, and the characters are pretty amusing. It has all the elements that made a children's book enjoyable: funny moments, sad moments, contemplative moments, satisfying ending. A great summer read indeed!
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1,949 reviews125 followers
May 29, 2017
4.5 stars. Adorable and sweet. Adventure, friendship, and mischief! A perfect, fun summer read for middle grade audiences!!!
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39 reviews1 follower
January 19, 2025
What a sweet story of growing up and into the person you want to be. <3
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June 8, 2025
Love a good cousin/family relationship that grows and develops into something beautiful🥹
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91 reviews
June 9, 2024
I wonderful coming of age story that touches on so many different topics. I kind of put this book off for a little while. I regret this, however. It blew away my expectations and I LOVED it. The Summer of Bad Ideas is awesome for kids who are just getting into reading and want a challenge. It faces the awkwardness of middle school, friendships, and so much more.
I recommend it for kids ages 10-13 and grades 4-7.
-SnowSnowKitty
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593 reviews171 followers
June 13, 2017
It's getting to be that time of year where I'm looking for good summer reads, and The Summer of Bad Ideas seemed to most definitely fit the bill. After all, who hasn't had family vacations with siblings, parents and cousins go very, very wrong?

For the most part, The Summer of Bad Ideas was a delight. Stewart has an obvious understanding of what it means to feel like the odd-person left out as a tween, and does a wonderful job of showing that awkward balance between equally loving and hating family, and also wanting to fit in with friends who have gone their separate ways. It's hardly a surprise that Edie finds her cousin Rae so alluring, and wants to model herself after her cousin, vis-a-vis their grandmother's list.

However, like any coming-of-age tale, Edie quickly learns that appearances are deceiving. While she's disappointed that Rae isn't necessarily the ideal person that Edie has made herself out to be. Stewart shows the ups-and-downs of their relationship brilliantly; she clearly understands the small things that can influence the ebbs and flows of a newly-developed familial relationship, and readers will empathize with Edie profoundly.

Where the book didn't fully work for me though, was that the resolution felt a bit hasty. It resolved itself too quickly, and I would have loved to see more. However, this is a personal preference, and I think that younger readers will likely see the abruptness of that resolution, as a reminder that there will always be a next time and a next summer for Edie and cousin.

Strongly recommend; this is a great way to kick of summer reading.
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1,724 reviews62 followers
June 5, 2019
Adult rating: 3 stars
Kid rating: 4 stars

Edie and her family are spending the summer in small town, Florida, renovating her deceased grandmother's house. Joining in on the project are her uncle and cousin, Rae. Edie never knew her grandmother and she's meeting her cousin for the first time. Edie has never been a social butterfly so she's thrilled when she and Rae "hit it off." Amidst their grandmother's things is a list titled "Petunia's Good Ideas for Summertime 1962. The list has things like "catch a snake bare-handed, dance in the hurricane, and kiss the charmer." Edie and Rae decide to do the list. First, they meet the neighbor boy, Mitchell, who takes care of their grandmother's snakes. Edie is deathly afraid of snakes, so the first item on the list is a fail. "The Hurricane," they find out, is an old dance hall. They try to sneak in late at night, but get caught. Another fail. On and on they go, exploring the town, sneaking out, getting to know Mitchell, and avoiding alligators and snakes.

This is a fun summer read. I love the cover and the catchy title. Any book about summer and kids running around on their own doing crazy stuff is always popular with the middle grade crowd. Edie's character is relatable. She's losing her best friend at home to a more popular girl and she's developing a crush on Mitchell. She's awkward with Rae and Mitchell, but they don't seem to mind. For the first time she can be herself and not get judged. A great addition to a school collection.
280 reviews
December 8, 2025
Edie is not happy about having to spend the summer at her grandmother's house. But after bonding with her cousin Rae and finding a summer bucket list of her grxmother's, things start looking up... until Edie realizes that the list is full of bad ideas, and that her mission to conquer her fears and keep her best friend from ditching her isn't going so well. But with a little help from her cousin, and OK, maybe her annoying twin siblings, she can turn it around.

Overall, I enjoyed Edie as a character, but at times she did really annoy me. I wished she would have become a more active main character a little sooner in the story instead of always being passive or trying to people please. But overall, I liked the sweet message and the small town feel of the story, so I still think it's a pretty solid book and might be worth a read for middle school girls who are struggling with friends ditching them or feeling like they can't conquer their fears.
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25 reviews3 followers
July 24, 2021
This book is about a girl (Edith or Edie) who’s grandmother Petunia recently died and her and her family are going to Florida to clean her grandma’s house. They meet Edie’s cousin Rae and Her Uncle AJ. When Rae and her are cleaning their room Edie finds a list That says “Good Ideas for Summertime 1. Catch a snake barehanded, 2. Discover hidden treasures, 3. Dance in the hurricane, 4. Master flirting, 5. Wish upon a shooting star, 6. Write something scary, 7. Cross Corkscrew Swamp under a FULL MOON, 8. Hug the person you least want to, 9. Kiss the charmer, 10. ???” Their grandmother was very adventurous she had a lot of taxidermied animals mostly her pets she loved animals. Edie wants to do it to impress her friend Taylor who is at a camp with Edith’s arch nemesis Sophi Angelo. Who said that Edith is boring and is a scaredy-cat. She didn’t tell Rae that though she said “we should do this list of stuff for Petunia.” Later they meet Mitchell The snake keeper he’s the one who takes care of Petunias snakes Edie is scared of snakes. Before Edie goes home she wants to check one thing off the list.
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222 reviews1 follower
February 14, 2021
This book started out really good, but I guess by the end I was a little bored of it. Edith becomes great friends with Rae and Mitchell, who knew Petunia, their grandmother who died. That's why they are at the house, fixing it up because Petunia died. When Edith and Rae (who have never met each other) become really good friends and find a list that Petunia once wrote, they try to do everything on it. It has crazy, bad ideas, like catching a snake, and going into an abandoned building to dance-one of my favorite parts. I really liked the character Rae and the small town. A also liked the smart twins and how they bombarded everyone with scientific things. And I liked the ending when they get home because Edith writes a list of her own bad ideas.
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139 reviews1 follower
January 31, 2018
Edie is scared of everything, but when she meets her cousin Rae while cleaning out her dead grandmother's house, she decides to face her fears by completing the list of "good ideas to complete over the summer" Catching a snake with her bare hands and cross under the corkscrew swamp under a full moon don't really seem like good ideas to her. Kiera Stewart really shows off her talent in this book. It's a wonderful piece of literature and I would love to see more books like this or a sequel to it. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants an adventure, particularly in middle school. This was a great book!
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December 11, 2020
This story talks about at summer time Edith meet her cousin - Rae in Florida. They decide to take risk from their grandmother's list (that their grandmother take risk from it). They do crazy things like: write something scary, dance in a hurricane, and catch a snake... Because of all these crazy ideas Edith and Rae got into a lot of trouble. In the time between these things happens they had many funny and happy times. Edith's brother think these ideas were very crazy, but Edith think every bad ideas could be good ideas. After all this book it is about a great friendship and a funny but happy summer times and I think this book is very good.
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44 reviews
September 3, 2021
Edie and her family needed to go to their old grandmother’s house because she had passed away, and they needed to fix it up because they were planning on selling it. They were not the only people who were going to the house to fix it up, Edie’s cousin, Rae, and uncle were going there to, and they would be there together for the time being. When Edie got to the house Edie had no clue what was in her futcher. Lies are made up so she could feel like someone someone would want to hang out with, and crushes are found.
Snakes are totally weird, and alligators imagoned. People stargaze, and people are betrayed. Overall it was a amazing book, and was a real adventure only inside of a book
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419 reviews
July 3, 2020
Meh. This middle-grade fiction didn't do it for me. Edie felt flat and I felt not very drawn to her. I actually liked her nerdy family. And Edie's cousin was annoying, with all her social media obsession. There was some character development, but it could have been fleshed out more and given a stronger resolution. I suppose middle school/older elementary kids would like this well enough, but it just fell kind of flat for me. I did love the book cover, though. The art on it is beautiful. If only its inside lived up to its outside.
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5 reviews
May 15, 2017
I loved the way that Kiera gave this story a real feal to the point where I almost thought it was non-fiction. This book is a story of a not so cool girl who is running the risk of losing her best friend to her nemesis so she desperately wants to go to a camp with her friend to save the friendship but, her overprotective mom has other plans. She plans to work on her mother's old house. Will she keep her best friend find out in The Summer Of Bad Ideas.
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Author 38 books54 followers
May 20, 2017
Edie didn't plan on spending her summer in a Podunk town in Florida. However, when her eccentric grandmother, who she never met, passed away, the family gathers to put her house in order. Edie's genius twin brother and sister have a quest or two. Edie gets to meet your cousin Rae, who seems to be everything Edie is not, and Edie discovers that her rule-following ways can become a little more flexible. This is a summer of discovery, growth, and surprises.
236 reviews1 follower
June 12, 2018
A quick summer read that deals with facing fears, being honest, and building strong friendships. When their free-spirited grandmother dies, cousins Edith and Rae come with their families to clean out her house. They discover a to do list written by their grandmother as a young girl and decide to work on completing the list together. What they discover in the process is more life changing than the daring feats they attempt!
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1,473 reviews21 followers
March 23, 2023
It was fine; I didn't love it. There is some classic (perhaps stereotypical?) middle grade angst about boys, losing friends to the popular crowd, trying to fit in, and family relationships. Nice to have this
happen in summer rather than in a school setting. Petunia would have been a fun grandma to know!
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Author 3 books9 followers
May 5, 2017
Loved this! A perfect summer story that reminds me of long summers I spent playing with my cousins. Just the thing for anyone who remembers being that scaredy-cat, rule-following kid like Edie who just wants to be brave and cool like her cousin Rae.
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1,052 reviews
August 5, 2017
This book does a good job of dealing with social issues and social media with tweens. It has some good grief themes, as well as family dynamics. It is really primariy a book for mature 5th graders and above. I can't see boys really loving this, but girls will.
7 reviews1 follower
September 11, 2017
I thought this was a great book although I think that Edie and Rae should have completed more items on the list and had less tensions at the end. Also I think that the cover is misleading saying that they do go on the swamp.
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10 reviews
May 14, 2020
I like this book because it is very adventurous. Two girls find their grandmothers old bucket list and decide to do the things on the list for very different reasons. This book inspires me to do things out of my comfort zone.
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164 reviews
July 23, 2022
I thought the book was good; however, there were a few moments that the writing did not make sense to me. I did enjoy the storyline and how Edie wants to go out of her comfort zone; however, it all ends up not going the way it is planned.
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