Iva Honeysuckle Meets Her Match

Overview

Uncertain, Virginia is no place for an explorer like Iva Honeysuckle to spend the summer. When Iva finds out her family is going on vacation, she's thrilled. She knows she will make her next great discovery at Stingray Point. The very name promises adventure and danger.

Iva soon realizes that Stingray Point isn't the exciting place she thought it was. But then Iva hears about the legend of Chessie, the town's very own sea monster. Spotting ...

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Iva Honeysuckle Meets Her Match

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Overview

Uncertain, Virginia is no place for an explorer like Iva Honeysuckle to spend the summer. When Iva finds out her family is going on vacation, she's thrilled. She knows she will make her next great discovery at Stingray Point. The very name promises adventure and danger.

Iva soon realizes that Stingray Point isn't the exciting place she thought it was. But then Iva hears about the legend of Chessie, the town's very own sea monster. Spotting Chessie would blow all other discoveries out of the water.

Stalking a sea monster isn't as easy as it looks. Iva needs a partner—all the best discoverers have one. Iva may have the brains and determination to find Chessie, but she needs someone with a healthy dose of luck. When Iva realizes just who happens to be her perfect match, it will be her greatest discovery of all.

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Editorial Reviews

Children's Literature - Ellen Welty
Iva Honeycutt lives in Uncertain, Virginia with her sisters and parents. They live next door to Mrs. Honeycutt's sister and Mr. Honeycutt's brother, who are married to each other and who have three children who are the same age as the children in Iva's family. Iva's family has never gone anywhere. Iva wants to be an explorer and make important discoveries like Captain John Smith. She has renamed herself Iva Honeysuckle for that reason. When her mom and aunt announce that they are taking all six children to Stingray Point for a week, Iva knows that this is her big chance to make a discovery. What she does instead is tattle on her cousin Heaven, lose her mom's camera, sneak into a neighbor's apartment, and trick her little sister into giving Iva her souvenir money. The author has failed to create a sympathetic protagonist or well-developed secondary characters and the childish humor which might have carried the story wears thin by the end of the book. Teachers and librarians would do better to direct readers to The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall or to Beverly Cleary's Ramona stories. Reviewer: Ellen Welty
Kirkus Reviews
Summer vacation, Iva Honeysuckle–style. When Iva's cousin Heaven pulls a card from her Daily Life deck and reads, "Pack for a long trip," both 9-year-olds find it hard to believe they are going anywhere. Living next door to each other in Uncertain, Va., means they never go anywhere. Turns out the Daily Life card was right, and soon, both families load into cars and head to the beach on the Chesapeake Bay. Staying in a small house with six kids and their mothers turns out to be harder than anyone expected. The older cousins are boy-crazy, the little kids need constant watching, and Heaven and Iva compete for the affections of glamorous London Howdyshell, straining their already fractious relationship. Iva adds to the friction by refusing to shower or brush her teeth for the vacation. The arguing and sniping drags on the narrative, leaving few likable characters. Iva, who gets into trouble at every turn, often chooses to simply cover up her errors rather than make them right. The vacation is made more confusing by colloquialisms ("A goose walked over Iva's grave") that may tantalize but will make little sense to young readers. The girls do learn that blood is thicker than water, but it takes a painfully long time to realize it. (Fiction. 7-10)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781423135142
  • Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
  • Publication date: 6/11/2013
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 1,147,498
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

Candice Ransom (www.candiceransom.com) has published more than one hundred books for children, including Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World, Seeing Sky-Blue Pink, Finding Day's Bottom, and The Big Green Pocketbook. She lives with her husband in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Heather Ross (www.heatherross.squarespace.com) is an artist, author and textile designer. Her first book, Weekend Sewing, came out in 2009. She has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show. Heather's home and studio are in New York City.

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