Reviewed for Third Grade, 2009

Leaving the Bellweathers

If your child loves the funny, the crazy, and the outrageous, then he'll love this comic caper about a most dysfunctional family and their fed-up butler. The book is packed with the meticulously detailed journal entries of Tritan Benway, sworn to a family oath committing him to tend to the Bellweathers in their chaotic lighthouse. But his contract is running out. Will the Bellweather family succeed in convincing Tristan to stay? Parents and kids alike will laugh out loud as they find out. (EgmontUSA, $10.87)