5/20/2023 0 Comments Across the Pond by Joy McCullough![]() ![]() Of course this is all working toward a happier ending: Callie may have gotten kicked out of the birding club, but it helped introduce her to Rajesh, whose unflappable nice-ness is hard to resist. Callie can definitely identify with Pippa’s lonely feeling of being always on the outside. The only thing keeping her going is the journal the former of the lady of the house kept when she was Callie’s age and shipped off to the countryside during the Blitz. Only, as it turns out, the scenery has changed, but Callie hasn’t, and within a couple of weeks, she’s made enemies with their new handyman’s daughter and gotten kicked out of the local birding club for arguing that female birds should count in the sighting scores. ![]() Adjusting to life in Scotland after growing up in San Diego might seem challenging, but Callie can’t wait - middle school has ripped her friend group to shreds, and she’s ready to reinvent herself in a new place. Surely I am not the only person who has imagined what it would be like to randomly inherit a castle in Scotland? That’s exactly what happens to Callie’s family: Her mom and dad rented a cottage on the palace grounds while they were in college in Edinburgh, and the owner forged such a bond with her then-newlywed tenants that she left the castle to their family in her will. ![]() Across the Pond is a low-key middle grades charmer. ![]()
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