Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Disappearing Stranger

                                      
The Disappearing Stranger (Adventures of the Northwoods, Book 1)
Hello bloggers!! Here is the book that you guys chose for the book poll, and there will be another  I hope that you enjoy this review!
This story begins in Minneapolis in 1906 with a twelve-year-old girl named, Kate O'Connell and her Swedish, widowed mother. After her Irish father is killed in a construction accident one year before, she starts to notice that her mother was very lonely. So she goes to their paster, and asks him to help her pray that her mother will find another husband... but God gave her what she least expected!
A few days later, the preacher came to Kate's home and said that God had answered her prayers. The preacher put a add in the paper for Kate's mother, but Kate's mother doesn't know. He received an answer from a Swedish man, Mr. Nordstrom, who lives on a farm in the wilderness of  Wisconsin. He is also looking for a wife for his three young children. Anders, who is 12, Lars, who is 9,and Tina, who is 4. Kate has always wanted a little sister, she wanders if two brothers will be too much for her! Kate's mother and Mr. Nordstrom decided that the best thing to do for their families was to get married. So Kate and her mother move to Wisconsin with Kate's new family, and there a lot of mishaps that happen in the first few days that are just hilarious!  Kate starts to wander if her new brother, Anders hates her.
But on her first day of school she was kind of lost in the woods, and she saw this mysterious man that she notices is burying something in the ground. Who is this strange man, and what was he putting in the ground? Kate intends to find out!
Let me know what you think of the book and this review!! :)
                                           Sincerely,
                                        ~Mallory~

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