Dapo Adeola

It is the last Monday in August. School is about to start and cousins Otto and Sheed are determined to do something special on this, the last day of summer. Adventure finds them as a photo taken with a camera from a mysterious stranger puts the entire town in a time freeze. These two resourceful tweens set out to make things right with the help of some out of ordinary, not to mention extraordinary, characters they meet along the way.

This story is the weird and clever of Gravity Falls meets Phineas & Ferb. These “Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County” are known for solving the wacky and bizarre all over their strange county. Just that summer they had battled laughing locusts and banshees. In fact, the cousins have been awarded the key to the city twice. They follow the peculiar and unknown with a notebook of clues and list of kooky numbered maneuvers that range from distracting Grandma to Jumping the Creek.

The illustrations in this middle-grade book pull the reader in and keep up with the fast pace of the story. While there is a mystery to solve and plenty of physics busting, time-twisting science fiction- with a touch of fantasy- fun to go around, this is also a story about relationships and choices that people make along the way that could have lasting consequences in the real world. With bikes, robots, and arch-rivals turned allies, this is the perfect summer read and will fit nicely into any 4-7 grade library.… (meer)

In Logan County, VA, things are not always as they seem to be nor as they appear to happen. Cousins Otto and Sheed are known around town for their skill and adventures in battling the strange by way of deduction, inventiveness and assorted maneuvers. They’ve even been recognized with keys to the city for their work. But on the last day of summer before school begins, the boys take on their greatest challenge yet, after a stranger shows up in town and time freezes.Mystery and time travel, the puzzle of putting it together. Readers are deducing the way Otto does. Humorous play on phrases of time (bedtime, crunch time, game time, second guessers) and how frozen time impacts them. Otto and Sheed’s relationship: teasing, bickering, bantering, insults, buddies, teammates, they have each other’s backs, flaws and all. Seemed to me a standard adventure story until we got into Petey’s story and how he came to be and how “Old Petey” made things right with “Young Petey.” Then we come to the heart and substance of the story so then the story works.… (meer)