By Joseph Helgerson
Reviewed by Claire
This is an interesting book about a 12-year-old girl named Claire and her adventure along the magical Mississippi River in order to save her cousin Duke and her family
The story starts when Claire’s cousin Duke stole her pet turtle and dangle her over a bridge over the Mississippi River. Duke is a bully, no one likes a bully. What happened to Duke was unexpected. An old lady sitting on a boat saved Claire when Duke dropped her over the bridge by sprinkling some powder on her which Claire started to float and landed safely on the old lady’s boat. At the same time, something horrible happened to Duke that his nose turned into a rhino’s horn.
The old lady tells Claire that the river is actually a spell that bullies will be turned into rhinos. The only way to fix the spell is going through an act of true kindness. Claire tried to fix Duke, but Duke won’t listen to her furthermore. Duke run away from her with three river trolls telling “why are his parents turned to stone?” Claire is determined to save her cousin and her family.
Claire finds out that the only way to change her family back to normal is to find the rock feather that belongs to the river trolls. On the other hand, the river trolls need her help to find the shooting star to trade for the talking crickets to bring backs the missing fathers. Claire took the adventure with Duke and the river trolls to the mines of the rock troll named Bodacious Deepthink in the underground mines. Claire find out not only with the help of the old lady and her brother, she finds 28 rhinos in the fight with the rock trolls. All the rhinos showed their courage and unselfishness to the rock trolls and turned back to kids. Claire has her family back including her lost relatives. Who would have known that Duke was a river troll instead of a kid?
This book is full of wild imagination and unexpected terms. This is also a book that can teach us life lessons of being truly kind to your friends and family. I really enjoyed reading about all the adventures of naughty kid, river and rock trolls, and fairies.
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