so-soPretty good but not great. The Applewhites are a multi-generational artistic colony and unschool, where Jake Semple lands as a last resort before juvie. Poor E.D. is the lone “normal” kid, and she craves organization and order - two things very hard to find at Wit‘s End. Hijinx ensue. Should include a trigger warning for The Sound of Music overload.
pick#ReadingResolutions Day 14: The Applewhites remain one of my favourite #FictionalFamily of all times - a bunch of eccentric, unapologetically-different, strange family members that also functions as a home school. Possibly one of the middle grade novels that made me pay greater attention to children‘s literature and the portrayal of high creatives, gifted and talented in books for young readers.
"If God had wanted humans to be vegetarians, He'd have given them cow's teeth and an extra stomach."
Surviving the Applewhites | 
