I enjoyed this book! As other reviewers have said it harkens back to the boxcar children for me. I love the Canadian setting and the characters were delightful! ( )

I picked up this book because it was set in British Columbia, Canada, where I live. As an adult, I was surprised at how much I genuinely enjoyed the book. It made me think of the days I read The Boxcar Children. I enjoyed reading about the sisters' distinct personalities as they approach their tricky new life, and I appreciated that it didn't feel like the author was being especially simple with her writing, (I can't remember when I last encountered "perspicacity.")

I would recommend this book for classroom as well as personal reading. ( )

Dark premise saved by excellent characters. The story setup is that a clutch (brace, pack, flock?) Of orphans is traveling to a new familial guardian, only to find that she has passed on. They decide to stay anyway, faking an adults' supervision. Hijinks ensue.

I received this book as a Librarything Reviewer. I have read other books by Polly Horvath which I have enjoyed more than this one. Four sisters are orphaned when their parents are killed by a tsunami. They are afraid they'll be split up but finally a distant relative who lives on Pine Island agrees to take them. When they finally arrive they discover the house is ready for them but the aunt has also died. Afraid of being separated they try to fool the authorities into thinking they have a guardian. It works for awhile but eventually they are caught. Most of the time life for each of the girls is fairly normal at school and at home.I remember enjoying books about children surviving without parents around and the challenges they faced and I would probably have enjoyed this one at that age. ( )

Thank you so much to LibraryThing and Tundra Books for this book in exchange for my honest review. I really enjoyed this book. It was about four sisters who lived with their parents in Borneo. Their parents went on vacation and were washed away in a tsunami. A woman from their church comes to stay while they try to find a family member to take them in. Finally their great aunt who lives on an island in BC offers. When they arrive they find that she also has passed away and they try to keep it a secret that they are living without a grown up. I really enjoyed the way the book was written. I liked the writing style as well as the fact that the loss of their parents was done very matter-of-factly. It's a middle school book and the loss of their parents wasn't a main theme so the author gets it out of the way in the first paragraph. I really enjoyed all four of the girls. They all had very different personalities and I found each of them to be likeable. I did feel really bad for Fiona (the oldest) at times as she was carrying so much responsibility. There are some joys and also some disappointments. There was an adult neighbour Al who I felt was a little over the top in constantly yelling at them and could have been toned down a little bit. There were four uses of blasphemy which I was a bit surprised about as it was a middle school book. Two of them were on the last page and I felt were unnecessary. Other than that no content concerns. Overall I found this to be an interesting and enjoyable read. This book was reviewed on the Literary Club Podcast Season 2 episode 33 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1984185