After moving from her apartment to a house in Iowa, Lucy learns that her family all the way back to her great uncle lived in the house which the towns people called “The Brick”. Her Aunt Lavonne had lived in the house till she died and that’s when her family had moved there. She knew that her great uncle had one night disappeared from the farm house into the ocean, but everyone knows that there’s no ocean in Iowa. Lucy’s Dad told her about a little book that Oscar (her great uncle that had disappeared) had wrote in. The book had little story beginnings that Oscar had wrote years ago, one of them was a boy who lived in a small farm house in Iowa looked out his window one night and saw an ocean, on the shore there was a boat just the right size for him, he got in and sailed away. That story, Lucy realized came true according to Oscar’s sister, her aunt Lavonne, but she couldn’t ask her because she was dead!!
I highly recommend this book: it’s funny and so random! I would read another book by this author because she keeps her imagination wide open and always makes serious things hilarious.
Reviewed by: Sabine's World
