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Summary: Nuts are Good!
Review: I love the book Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris because it is written so well. Ferris uses such detail and description to describe these characters and their surroundings. She puts a lot of humor into her stories and uses very descriptive words and phrases.
Sandy Huntington-Ackerman was living life on Easy Street. His parents were both multi-millionaires. He lived in a huge mansion about 40 miles outside of the town called Jupiter. The mansion is called Eclipse. One day, Sandy's uncles, Bart and Bernie, try to poison the entire family so they can get all of the money that belongs to Sandy's father, Horatio. Luckily they miscalculate and it only sends Sandy's parents, the cook, and their pet chicken Attila, into comas. Sandy doesn't want his parents to leave the house but the doctor says they have to go to a hospital.
Sandy finds out that the house that neighbors the Eclipse is called Walnut Manor and is a loony-bin. Sandy decides to send his parents, the cook, and Attila there but also hires an extra nurse named Sunnie. Bart and Bernie are furious when they find out that Horatio is still alive, even though incapacitated at the moment, and Sandy is still alive and kicking. They try to make another attempt on Sandy's life but with the help of his loyal butler, the nurse Sunnie, and the inmates from Walnut Manor, Sandy will try his best to send those creeps to jail.
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Summary: A great book for all ages.
Review: Sweet and naive Sandy tries to save his parents and pet chicken from being killed by his greedy and sinister uncles who are after the family money. When this means moving the comatose chicken and parents into the neighboring hospital for the mentally challenged, they will meet and befriend a cast of very endearing yet neglected people. A very warm-hearted story with humor, adventure, and suspense all in one cover. Great imagination!
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Summary: Love Among the Walnuts
Review: The book I read was "Love Among the Walnuts" written by Jean Ferris. The theme of this book starts out in the city with a man named Horatio Alger Huntington-Ackerman. Then the book ends up in the country where Horatio had married a women named Mousey Malone. The lived in a huge house they built 40 miles away from Jupiter city. So you think this is a happy story well your in for a treat this happy story turns into a suspense drama about twenty years after Horatio and Mousey moved to their house. Yes the word Walnuts is for the mental hospital called the Walnut Manor that is 1 mile away from the eclipse (that's what Horatio and Mousey called it). The first thing I would like to say that this was a enjoying book. My reason is that I liked how the author gave each character such character. In the book she put so much description and enthusiasm in her characters. I find that each character has a huge part in this book. The genre of this adventure/ romance/ and Drama. What I liked about books writing style is how the author kept you up and ready for the next part that's what I enjoyed mostly about the book. Her writing also gives you clues and in the end gives the answers part by part. The author's voice is calm and surprising and I mean that by how she writes this story. Some quotes I would like to share with you are "It's rather toughing" and " Isn't that sweet". I chose these quotes for the reason to show how the author portrays her characters and shows the love between the characters them selves. Well how I felt about this book is that it was a very calm, easy and soothing book with a little excitement. I found wanting to read more and more of it when I began. I just wanted to know happened to these characters and how they handled through any problems or hard ships.. I would recommend this to anyone with the interest in drama stories.
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Summary: Nuttier Than a Fruitcake and Twice As Much Fun!
Review: The title hooked me on this book immediately! Who can pass up a book cover with a photo of a mansion, a chicken and a toilet plunger on it, anyway? I polished it off in a single day while on vacation and had many laughs along the way. The book is a wonderful mix of surprises and predictability and certainly doesn't follow any formulas. There are many lessons to be learned in this book- some small, others weightier but to me the most important one was that everyone is worthy of a little time and attention. A wonderful choice for book discussions and certainly one moms will want to read after their children are through! (By the way, I'm way over 13, but could only write a review by clicking on the "under 13" label!)
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Summary: Money isn't everything?!?
Review: This book came to me by a friend who said it was very good. I spent the next month thinking about what a stupid book it was going to be. When I finally got around to reading it I couldn't put it down, and finished it in less than a day. I evan read it again wich is something I almost never do. The Walnuts helped me to relize what a great life I had, but made it fun to do. Love among the Walnuts also made people beleive that money really doesn't make life perfect, and that it can make more problems than happyness.
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Summary: Murder she wrote meets The Waltons
Review: This book ought to be a movie, it's so much fun to read. It's got rich folks, poor folks, kids who don't do drugs, true love, lunatics in the asylum next door who are saner than most of the folks in Washington DC. It's got intrigue, bad guys (who are after the money), funny lines and touching characters. If it were a movie, it would be Awakenings Meets Groucho Marx. Great for kids ten to thirteen. Or grownups who like to read really good books.
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Summary: Money isn't everything?!?
Review: This book was amazing. I found it very hard to put down and consumed every word in one day. I have read some really good books but this was the best. It was so fun. Each sentence brought another suprise. How each character found something they loved more than life itself. And it was so easy to read. It is a book I will read again and force it all my friends.
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Summary: The Best Book I Have Read EVER
Review: This book was amazing. I found it very hard to put down and consumed every word in one day. I have read some really good books but this was the best. It was so fun. Each sentence brought another suprise. How each character found something they loved more than life itself. And it was so easy to read. It is a book I will read again and force it all my friends.
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Summary: What a ride!
Review: Wow, Jean Ferris must have some imagination! They book flies with you and you just can't put it down! It definitley deserves more than 5 stars! Horatio Alger Hungtington-Ackerman has a fortune. Because of his great amounts of money, his two brothers bond in mutual envy. They bring a poisonous cake to dinner one night, and Horatio and his wife Mousey fall into comas. (So does their pet chicken, the subject of many experiments.) Lucky for Mousey and Horatio, their son is there to save the day. If he only knew what to do next. Mousey and Horatio are forced to recieve medicial care, so they are transfered to Walnut Manor, the "loony bin" next door. With the help of his crazy butler, and the not-quite-right residents of Walnut Manor, Sandy eventually saves the day. The book was hilarious and very compelling. I just couldn't wait to find out what was the next plan of revenge that Sandy's uncles would attempt. I could definitley picture this book as a great movie. I can't wait to read another book by this obviously fantastic author!
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