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Blue Autumn Cruise

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It may take a miracle—or a hurricane—to save this family vacation.

Stepsisters Stephanie and Diana undergo another adventure when they embark on a Grand Cayman cruise with their extended family to celebrate their grandmother's 80th birthday. But the vacation gets complicated with the addition of an eccentric Granny and a video-taping manic cousin. Plus Stephanie's growing interest in boys makes Diana's Mood-o-Meter swing like a pendulum. When the girls discover a plot to smuggle a rare, endangered Blue Iguana, Diana's fury rages to the surface and threatens to ruin the entire birthday party—or unite the clan for a rescue mission.

The third installment of Sisters in All Seasons is full of humor, heartache, friendships, and very real family drama aboard a cruise-ship—where there's no escaping if you want to run away! Join Stephanie and Diana once again as they tread the wavering waters of step-sisterhood.

Lisa Williams Kline is the author of Floods, The Princesses of Atlantis, Write Before Your Eyes, and Eleanor Hill, winner of the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award. She has written for Cricket, Cicada, Spider and Odyssey magazines, and lives in North Carolina with her veterinarian husband, where they are frequently visited by their grown daughters. Besides writing, Lisa has been a disc jockey, copywriter, waitress, and veterinary hospital office manager. Recently she learned to drive a forklift.

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    • Kirkus

      October 15, 2012
      A multigenerational Caribbean cruise provides the setting for the latest entry in this series about two stepsisters who bond through the endangered wildlife they encounter. Diana, 15, struggling with a mood disorder, feels press-ganged into joining the family cruise in honor of her stepdad's mother, especially when she learns she and new stepsister Stephanie, 14, must share their stateroom with Stephanie's bossy cousin Lauren. Also 14, Lauren records whatever's in her vicinity on her video camera. Diana's refusal to hang out in the teen nightclub with them and the boys they meet threatens to destroy the festive mood, while timid Stephanie wants everyone to feel included but is unsure how to fix things. Luckily, finding an endangered baby blue iguana gives Diana a focus. Embodying the gentle religious subtext (an inclusive one, stressing behavior over belief), Stephanie's aware she's been blessed by an easygoing temperament, likability and good looks, and she feels these gifts confer responsibilities. One major element throws the narrative off balance: the sisters' vocabulary, naivete and social interactions feel like those of children three or more years younger. Only Lauren, an adolescent questioning parental authority, seems developmentally on track. The blandly commercial setting muffles the author's usually acute observations, but when Iggy the iguana enters the picture, pacing and energy pick up. (Fiction. 9-12)

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    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 2013
      Stepsisters return for another adventure in blended family vacationing, here on a Grand Cayman cruise. An insensitive cousin threatens Diana and Stephanie's tentative bond, and all three girls court trouble when they find a smuggled iguana on board. Animal hijinks and familial tensions wrap up tidily with plenty of lessons learned: an entertaining and gently moral addition to the series.

      (Copyright 2013 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:4.5
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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