Honey Moon is in gym class but is puzzled. There are no balls or jump ropes to use. Why does the gym teacher have a cd in her hand? When Honey finds out, she is devastated. She doesn't want to learn how to dance with a boy! She finds out later that there will be a Valentine dance that her parents expect her to go to! When her mom gives her these romantic valentines to the kids in her class, she is horrified. What will the boys think?

There are more adventures that she goes through before going to the Valentine dance that shows us how important it is to be truthful. Relationships with parents and friends are discussed in terms of hurting feelings. This story is fun to read! The color illustrations are a nice touch.

Honey Moon is the younger sister of Harry Moon. This is a great series for late primary/junior students, particularly girls. Honey seems to always find trouble. Valentine's Day is coming up and they are learning to dance at school. She does not want to dance with a boy and when she finds out there is a dance coming up, she does whatever she can not to attend. She is cute and funny with some of her ideas and activities. She does get angry and when she damages something, rather than admit it, she tries to repair it. This only gets her in deeper. Who will she have to go to the dance with? Will she get in trouble with her parents? Will she be allowed to go to her Valentine's Party at school?

This story had all the stereotypes of Valentine's Day at school. There was the Valentine's Mailboxes, cards for each student, the party and the teasing about boyfriends and girlfriends. The lessons of course about admitting your mistakes, not jumping to conclusions, being nice to others are there and could be discussed if the book is being read with an adult or as a read aloud. There are not a lot of illustrations, but those that are present are cute and add to the story. A good addition to the series. A great addition to family, classroom, school and public libraries.

Honey is having trouble growing up. She shows some wrong ways to deal with problems, but it is a cute book. It is a chapter book so it will be for more advanced reader who will stay engaged.

I had trouble getting into this series, but I am sure much younger readers would enjoy it. It seems very funny.

This is a great Valentine’s story. Honey Moon is hilarious and gets into lots of trouble. She doesn’t want to go to the dance with a boy, so she does everything she can to make them not like her. But this backfires on her. The dance at the end also provided a great twist. It wasn’t what Honey was expecting.

This story reminded me of when my class would celebrate Valentine’s Day when I was a kid. When picking out the cards for everyone, you had to make sure that the saying on the inside was appropriate. You wouldn’t want a boy in your class to get the wrong impression because you gave him a romantic Valentine. Honey takes that idea to the extreme by writing nasty things in the boys’ cards. That ends up backfiring on her because the boys like the gross things she wrote! Valentine’s Day is a fun holiday but it can also cause problems in the classroom.

I really liked this story. It gives a different perspective on a typical Valentine’s Day story, because Honey does everything she can to avoid getting a date to the dance.

While I really enjoyed the first two Honey Moon books, I’m sorry to say that I didn’t like this one at all. It felt like Honey had a personality makeover in this book and not for the better. She came across as bratty, self important and really mean. While she usually comes off as wanting to help people in this book she came across as feeling superior to others. Sure, she apologises at the end for her behaviour but it felt more like an apology for getting caught than a true apology. While I’d recommend the first two books in this series I wouldn’t recommend this one.

Thank you very much to NetGalley, Rabbit Publishers and Diamond Book Distributors for the opportunity to read this book.

This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.

This is the third and last of this series I shall ever read! I liked this much better than the previous two, and I think that's because it really didn't feature Harry Moon, but his sister with the unfortunate name of Honey Moon. I liked her a lot better than him - at least she did something, but her behavior tended towards the mean and the cowardly, and instead of making the right protestations, she made the wrong ones, but like her brother, she never seemed to learn anything, least of all how dumb she was.

The book had its amusing moments, but otherwise was really nothing new, and it presented children with the wrong options, I thought. The entire story was of Honey Moon's completely misguided attempts to get out of a Valentine's Day dance, and int his it suffered precisely the main problem that the previous "Harry the magician" series suffered: if only people would talk to each other instead of acting like idiots and flying off the handle, then most of their problems would never arise. How hard is it to advise children to talk to one another - and to responsible adults? No magic required!

Again the book featured bullying, but never once was it suggested the children do the right thing - go tell a grown up, preferably a teacher if this happens at school! It's really that simple. Instead of addressing Honey's problem, the so-called man of the house quotes the Bible to Honey: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink." The idea is to show kindness, but he conveniently fails to quote the sentence which follows that in Romans 12:20 though: "In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."

It's hardly a kindness to shame someone so much that they feel like this, and most of the time it will not work. One again the Bible is the last place to go to get good advice for modern times, but it is a great place for reading about bullying and rejoicing in brutality. The whole point of this advice was to show kindness to those who bully you. Well, good luck with that half-assed plan. No, the way to deal with bullying at school is to REPORT IT! For goodness sakes, REPORT IT! If you want to show kindness to bullies, then advise them that if they do not stop, you will report it, and if they do not stop, then REPORT IT! It's that simple.

Once again the illustrations - all of white folks as usual, and yes you can judge this book by its cover - were done by Christina Weidman, but either she never read this novel, or the author did a poor job in describing Honey Moon to her. In the text, Honey's hair is described thus: "Her wild brown curls waved crazily in all directions." A couple of pages later it's described as a "wild mane," and later still as "long curly hair," so the take-home message is long, wild and curly, yet her hair is consistently illustrated pretty much as kempt, short, and straight: pretty much a bob! Even when she's depicted climbing out of a box of basketballs in which she'd tried to hide, her hair is straight, and very nearly perfectly arranged.

Again the book was formatted with unnecessarily wide-margins, and widely-spaced paragraphs so I'm getting the distinct impression that neither the authors nor the publisher has any love of trees. This, too, is a really poor message to send to children and overall, I cannot recommend this volume either.

This cute middle grade novel follows the antics of Honey Moon as she attempts to navigate her first dance amid awkwardness, accidents, and confusion, making for an adventure!