“It was 1901 and I was patching up a tire when my bother Jake came in soaked to the skin.
“Twister” he said, so then we went back to in to the grape arbor. “ (1) These two sentences are from Here Lies the Librarian that was written by Richard Peck. I expected more action in this book and it just wasn’t there.
Jake is 19 years old and the older bother of Eleanor who is 14 years old . He is going to drive in a road race. Jake was thrown from the car while turning in the air like a wrench and hit a tree in lap two. He suffered a broken arm. The car hit the hay and wasn’t damaged enough that it could not be driven by someone else.
After Jake got injured, his sister Eleanor had to finish the race for him. Eleanor had to race eight boring laps. Eleanor’s tire popped and she had to finish the race going backwards. To her surprise she won the race. Unfortunately, she did not win the prize money because she was not registered for the race and she wasn’t the right age. She was only 14 and she needed to be 16 to get the prize money. .
Except for the car crash and Eleanor finishing the race backwards everything else in the book was uneventful. There was no action in the book and didn’t hold my attention. I thought there could be more car crashes and more cars hitting the hay. All the book did was give me anxiety until the story was done.
This book is a fiction book about a brother and a sister living on their own. Jake and his sister have suffered a twister and had finish a race to make sure that their enemies don't get the prize money. Although it seemed like an exciting start to the book, Here's Lies the Librarian was very uneventful and boring to me. I prefer books with a lot of action in them. While this book had some action, it was just not enough.
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