Young Llama Thoughts
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Adventurous
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Christian Friendly
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Easy Reading
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Humerous
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Youth Appropriate
Overall
Review
The Matchstick Castle is a hilarious adventure filled with family, fun and a unstable house full of secrets and danger!!!
This book is about Brian, a young boy excited about a summer full of soccer and friends! Until his dad is sent away on a business trip and Brian is sent to his uncles house where summer school in the only “fun” thing happening. So when Brian finds a crumbling house filled with a crazy family in the woods, he drags his cousin into all the fun adventure he finds, even when it means keeping the Matchstick Castle from being torn down…
I love a simple funny story about friendship! This novel is such a clean, funny read. Filled with friendship and exploring a house full of chaos and family!!! This is a book that boys and girls 8 and up would love to read!!!
Overall, this is a book worthy of the Golden Llama Award! -The Young Llama Reader.
Pros
- A funny, adventure filled summer!
- Cute and humorous!!!
Cons
- Nothing… This book is awesome!
Brian can think of a few places he’d rather spend his summer than with his aunt and uncle in Boring, Illinois. Jail, for example. Or an earplug factory. Anything would be better than doing summer school on a computer while his scientist dad is stationed at the South Pole.
Boring lives up to its name until Brian and his cousin Nora have a fight, get lost, and discover a huge, wooden house in the forest. With balconies, turrets, and windows seemingly stuck on at random, it looks ready to fall over in the next stiff breeze. To the madcap, eccentric family that lives inside, it’s not just a home—it’s a castle.
Suddenly, summer gets a lot more exciting. With their new friends, Brian and Nora tangle with giant wasps, sharp-tusked wild boars, and a crazed bureaucrat intent on bringing the dangerously dilapidated old house down with a wrecking ball.
