Sweet, thoughtful middle grade novel. It skewed younger than I'd expected initially, but definitely worth reading and sharing with the younger readers in your lives.

A sweet coming of age story.

My biggest problem was the writing style. It was just not my thing. It felt a bit too simple for me.
The story line was really sweet, fun and heartwarming. The mystery was rather easily guessed but that didn't really matter

I think this is a decent YA novel. It deals with some issues and gives a great example of growing up. While it was a bit on the light side for me, I can understand that is because I lean much more towards "adult" fiction. If I were twelve, I think I really would have gotten something out of this book.