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Armando's Treasure (Carlson, Melody)

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For the Amazon Reading project I read the book Armando's Treasure by Melody Carlson. This book is a very good book if you're into slight mystery. I would rate this book four stars, it was interesting but not totally mind blowing. It's about a Hispanic boy named Armando Garcia who has ran away from his home in L.A. He arrives in a little town called Treasure and is attracted by an old pick up truck that was a little rusty but it was better than his own two feet. As he was checking out the car the little old lady named Dora Chase that owns the truck and the property he was on came out with a shot gun threatening to shot. Armando gently calmed down the lady convincing her that he met no harm. Dora has a broken arm and was in very much pain so Armando took her into her own house and gave her a pain reliever pill. As him and Dora were talking Dora's son came over and started yelling at Armando to get out of their house. Charlie (Dora's son) wanted Dora to sell her land to a factory, but Dora wouldn't because it used to be her husbands before he died and he gave everything to get the little farm working. Throughout, the story Armando meets Dora's grandchild Olivia, who is a very pretty girl, that Armando instantly falls in love with, but Olivia has a bad habit of smoking and drinking and also has a boyfriend that is an artist. Armando stays around the house to help out Dora incase her son tried to steal the property again. While helping out he makes himself at home and starts getting the farm running again, piece by piece. He builds Dora a pond and puts fish and plants all around and in it. Charlie was so furious at Armando that he looked up history on him and found out that he was wanted for possession of half a million pounds of cocaine which is the reason he ran away from home. Before Armando can get into trouble he takes off and starts heading back home but Olivia chases him down. Did Armando really commit a crime? What happens to him and Olivia? And then again what happens to the little farm that Armando was trying to get started again? You'll just have to read the book to get the answer.
Some things I liked about this story was that it was an easy to read book even though it was a thicker one, also it I also liked how it had such a good moral and it really made you think about things in your life and how much you take for granted. Some things I didn't like about this book was how it took so long to actually get going, in the beginning it got into really great detail that wasn't to interesting to read about.
Armando treasure wasn't like any other book I've read it had it's own little version of life and the way things work which is another thing I liked about it , how it didn't base itself off any other book.

by Brenda Murphy, author of The Wild Romancer: Uncovering the Romance Jesus Longs to Lavish on You. I found this book refreshing and laugh-out-loud funny. The characters are real-to-life and colorful, and this remains one of my favorites.

I liked this book, but not quite as much as some other Melody Carlson books I've read. I thought a few too many details worked out just a little too perfect,and too many characters experienced life-changing decisions unrealistically close to one another. But, it's a sweet story of starting over, forgiveness and redemption. Carlson knows how to write in a way that keeps the reader hanging in there right to the end.