Travels With my Family

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Call Number: J Fiction / Gay, Marie-Louise
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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A young boy tells the adventures of his family's summer vacations as his parents choose unusual places to visit.

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laugh-out-loud funny! submitted by camelsamba on August 1, 2011, 11:17pm This is entertaining and - at times - laugh-out-loud funny, although I think much of the humor went over the head of my 5 year old. Despite that, he enjoyed it too. There are a few serious notes as well - such as the revolution in Mexico, and the wave in California - but overall, it's light-hearted fare that should appeal to most kids. The "our parents are not normal" tension is resolved somewhat at the end.

Having lived most of my childhood in Roswell, NM, I liked that they spent a little time there (in modern, alien-rabid Roswell, not the Roswell of my youth!) I must make one correction, however: there is NO little train shuttling people around in Carlsbad Caverns, and never had been as far as I can remember. Minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but I can't let one of my favorite places be maligned like that!