Caddy Ever After (Casson Family, 4) - Hardcover

McKay, Hilary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416909311 ISBN 13: 9781416909316

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007

Synopsis

There are discos at school several times a year, but the Valentine's Day disco is the one that everyone talks about. They only sell the tickets in pairs. You have to ask someone, or be asked by someone before you can go. Torture.

But it won't be torture if Indigo Casson's special plan for the Valentine's Day disco works. Torture is in the cards for Saffy, though, when her first boyfriend decides to take her on an unusual date to a very, very dark graveyard. At least he didn't leave her on a moor with Rose -- yet.

About this title

About the Author:

Hilary McKay is the award-winning author of The Skylarks’ War (which was a Boston Globe Best Book, and received three starred reviews), Binny Bewitched (which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and received two starred reviews), Binny in Secret (which received three starred reviews), Binny for Short (which received four starred reviews), and six novels about the Casson family: Saffy’s Angel, Indigo’s Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose, and Caddy’s World. She is also the author of Wishing for Tomorrow, the sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. Hilary lives with her family in Derbyshire, England. Visit her at HilaryMcKay.co.uk.

From Booklist:

Gr. 6-9. McKay's fourth novel about the Casson family begins with every child's nightmare: while listening to a ghost story at school, nine-year-old Rose wets herself. Once again, McKay creates a sly, jovial portrait of an English family that pitches toward minor disasters only to be rescued by its own loving, eccentric members. Narrated in the voices of the three youngest Cassons (Rose, Indigo, and Saffron), whose passages sometimes employ lists and appendixes, the novel is more fragmented than its predecessors, and readers meeting the Cassons for the first time may wish for more background. Despite that, the crowd of voices echoes a large family, with each person trying to be heard, and the dramas, from older sister Caddy's engagement to Rose's thrilling discovery of "a flying feeling," are as wild and endearing as ever. Readers will also delight in the precise, human details, narrated by children who miss nothing: "Tired people cannot learn," says Rose's teacher as she dumps a handful of markers into her full coffee cup. Another charmer for Casson fans. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416909311
• ISBN 13: 9781416909316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240