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Love Among the Walnuts: or, How I Saved My Family from Being Poisoned

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Horatio Alger Huntington-Ackerman is a billionaire living in a huge mansion with his wife Mousey, and his son Sandy, isolated from the real world. Horatio's two brothers, Bart, and Bernie are jealous of Horatio's fortune. They know that if they could wipe out his family, and his butler, Bently, the fortune would be theirs. Bart and Bernie come to the mansion for their monthly dinner with a birthday cake. Everyone except Sandy, and Bently eat some of the cake. The next day, Sandy wakes up to find that everyone, including his pet chicken, was in a coma. Sandy and Bently do some research, and discover that the cake Bart and Bernie brought was poisoned. The only problem is, Bently disposed of the cake before they could get evidence to the police. Now Sandy and Bently will have to find proof that his uncles poisoned his parents, and try to survive their other attempts to kill them too.
This is a hilarious book dealing with family rivalries. I recommend this book to readers from 9-14. This book is well written and has a good plot!

I love the book Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris because it is written so well. Ferris uses such detail and description to describe these characters and their surroundings. She puts a lot of humor into her stories and uses very descriptive words and phrases.
Sandy Huntington-Ackerman was living life on Easy Street. His parents were both multi-millionaires. He lived in a huge mansion about 40 miles outside of the town called Jupiter. The mansion is called Eclipse. One day, Sandy's uncles, Bart and Bernie, try to poison the entire family so they can get all of the money that belongs to Sandy's father, Horatio. Luckily they miscalculate and it only sends Sandy's parents, the cook, and their pet chicken Attila, into comas. Sandy doesn't want his parents to leave the house but the doctor says they have to go to a hospital.
Sandy finds out that the house that neighbors the Eclipse is called Walnut Manor and is a loony-bin. Sandy decides to send his parents, the cook, and Attila there but also hires an extra nurse named Sunnie. Bart and Bernie are furious when they find out that Horatio is still alive, even though incapacitated at the moment, and Sandy is still alive and kicking. They try to make another attempt on Sandy's life but with the help of his loyal butler, the nurse Sunnie, and the inmates from Walnut Manor, Sandy will try his best to send those creeps to jail.

Wow, Jean Ferris must have some imagination! They book flies with you and you just can't put it down! It definitley deserves more than 5 stars!

Horatio Alger Hungtington-Ackerman has a fortune. Because of his great amounts of money, his two brothers bond in mutual envy. They bring a poisonous cake to dinner one night, and Horatio and his wife Mousey fall into comas. (So does their pet chicken, the subject of many experiments.) Lucky for Mousey and Horatio, their son is there to save the day. If he only knew what to do next. Mousey and Horatio are forced to recieve medicial care, so they are transfered to Walnut Manor, the "loony bin" next door. With the help of his crazy butler, and the not-quite-right residents of Walnut Manor, Sandy eventually saves the day.

The book was hilarious and very compelling. I just couldn't wait to find out what was the next plan of revenge that Sandy's uncles would attempt. I could definitley picture this book as a great movie. I can't wait to read another book by this obviously fantastic author!

Love Among the Walnuts was a book I was assigned to read for the summer. It didn't sound very appealing at first, seeing as how there was a chicken on the cover and the main character was a boy named Sandy. But after I started reading it, you'd need to pry the book from my hands with a wrench to get me to stop. The story was hilarious! It's about a boy named Sandy whose parents and pet chicken have fallen into comas. He sends them to a "loony bin" called Walnut Manor. There, he meets a whole bunch of wacky patients including the "cat molester", and Everet, who only speaks in other people's quotes. He also meets Sunnie, the nurse, who he is very attracted to.

I think that both girls and boys will laugh out loud at this book. Boys will find the wacky patients to be downright hilarious. Girls will think so, too, but they might also laugh at the love that Sandy has for Sunnie. I, being a girl, thought of Sandy as the guy I loved to hate. He would never admit that he liked Sunnie and his approach was all wrong. Most girls will love that.

I'd give this book ten stars if I could. It was amazingly written and very funny. Everyone will like this story in one way or another.

This book came to me by a friend who said it was very good. I spent the next month thinking about what a stupid book it was going to be. When I finally got around to reading it I couldn't put it down, and finished it in less than a day. I evan read it again wich is something I almost never do. The Walnuts helped me to relize what a great life I had, but made it fun to do. Love among the Walnuts also made people beleive that money really doesn't make life perfect, and that it can make more problems than happyness.

This book is the best! It's a page turner. I think everybody should read this book! IT'S THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am an almost ten year old girl and I loved this book. It was
fun and silly.

Love Among the Walnuts is an enchanting read which teaches you the importance of family, respecting differences,and how to save your comatose parents and pet chicken from being further harmed by your greedy, criminal uncles. Take all of this, spin them up and add a hint of eccentricity and you get Love Among the Walnuts. 2 Thumbs UP!!!

I was suprised by the complexity of this novel. Though I was expecting a more simplistic read, I found this book rich with plot twists and sophisticated comments on society. The novel has a highly satisfying conclusion, neatly tying up all loose ends.

The title hooked me on this book immediately! Who can pass up a book cover with a photo of a mansion, a chicken and a toilet plunger on it, anyway? I polished it off in a single day while on vacation and had many laughs along the way. The book is a wonderful mix of surprises and predictability and certainly doesn't follow any formulas. There are many lessons to be learned in this book- some small, others weightier but to me the most important one was that everyone is worthy of a little time and attention. A wonderful choice for book discussions and certainly one moms will want to read after their children are through! (By the way, I'm way over 13, but could only write a review by clicking on the "under 13" label!)