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Trouble with Lemons (Fawcett Juniper)

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The book The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes is a really good and exciting book! It has a lot of action, and mystery! It is about two friends (Lymie, and Tyler) that find something that they should have never found if it weren't for them sneaking out in the middle of the night. From there on Tyler gets in a lot of trouble with friends, family, schoolmates, and even the principle! What they found I'll leave it up to you to find out! I don't want to spoil the entire book for you! The Trouble with Lemons is now on my top ten list!

This might sound really immature, but the only reason I read the book was because of the cover illustration! Then I started reading it, and it became my favorite book of all time. The suspense is incredible and makes you want to read it again and again! I read it every chance I get now!

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The book Trouble With Lemons was about this 12-year old boy named Tyler and his friend Lymie. Tyler's dad had died and his mom is a famous actress. His older brother is an actor working on being famous. His mom is gone most of the time out making movie. He also has a housekeeper named Mrs. Saunders she watches him when his family is out of town. Tyler and Lymie sneak out one night to go to the quarry. They start to go swimming and Tyler bumps into a dead body. They run home to call the police. The police go to the scene to investigate. Will they find out who the murderer is? The only way you will find out is if you read the rest of the book. It is a really great book.

It is difficult for me to tell you how much I loved this book! There was a number of reasons why this book turned out to be so good. First of all, it taught me a lot of lessons in different areas. The main character, Tyler, thought he had so many problems in his life, but it just so happens that he had everthing to be happy about. I think this matter relates really well with teenagers that are growing up and searching for who they are.
Also, this book kept me hooked so well! You might suspect this book is boring because it is just about some kid growing up, but of course it is mixed with a mystery which makes you want to keep reading. Hope you choose this book for your next read!!!!

The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes combines a mystery story with a coming-of-age tale about a kid, Tyler McAllister, who doesn't quite fit in at his new school, not helped by his discovery of a body. The author does an effective job at combining these elements. The true joy in the novel, though, comes in the creation of the lead character and his friend, Lymie, the two oddballs at their school. These two characters will pull the reader through the book and allow any reader to identfy with them and their struggles both at school and in solving the mystery, the flip side of those darned popular Hardy Boys. Everyone has felt the oddball in school and these characters are both outsiders in the system in school and representative of a typical early teenager. A neat trick for the author to pull off. A very good first novel by the author for kids.

Trouble with Lemons is writen by Daniel Hayes. The setting of the story is in an old town and the time is summer. The protagonist is Tyler and he has asmatha and he is allergic to every thing. Another character is Lymie. He is one of Tylers best frends. The rising action is to find who killed the person in the quarry and how the body got there. The climax is when Tyler overheard Mark and Jack talking about something. I think the author was tring to teach people to think before doing something irresponsible. If you wait to long to tell someone that you did something wrong, the punishment is more severe than turning yourself in right away. I would recommend this book at the age limit of twelve years or older. I picked these ages because you might like mysteries and you might be surprised at who was in the quarry and who killed the person that was floting in the quarry dead.

The Trouble With Lemons by Daniel Hayes is a refreshingly "nice" book to read with the main character, Tyler who does not have to resort to violence to deal with problems. The storyline moves along at an easy pace and is able to keep the reader's attention without a lot of extra glitz and glitter that some may think is necessary to attract today's young readers to a book. Tyler meets the challenges that he faces and I think the reader will enjoy reading this very well-written book to discover just how he overcomes his difficulties.

I give the book The Trouble with Lemons two stars because it was a slow-paced book. It was kind of boring and didn't have much adventure in it. It told too much detail in too short of a book. When reading, I couldn't stay focused and lost interest in it. I thought the beginning was good, but after they found the body, it slows down and jumps to a different subject. I think it would be a better book if it had more adventure in it and it went deeper into the mystery of who killed the dead body. One of the reasons that I liked this book was that it was easy to read.

I give the book The Trouble with Lemons 4 stars. It was a halfway decent book with many surprises. The surprises came suddenly which was great, but afterward there were big lulls and spots where it was hard to stay interested. I loved the character Tyler. He was a kid who thought of himself as a "Lemon." He would trade himself in for a different kid that wouldn't get in so much trouble anytime he had a chance. He figured going to the principal twice a week and using Ms. Weavrly's class as naptime weren't things a good kid would do. Then he and his friend Lymie slipped out of the house out and went swimming in the town quarry. Everything was fine until he bumped into the body. It was BooBoo Anderson the school janitor. What were they to do? This book was very easy to read. I would recommend it to any of my friends. It's great for a kid who needs to pass the time.

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I read the book "The Trouble with Lemons" and this is a great book. I liked it because of the climax it is great. Tyler is the main character in this story. Tyler moves around to a lot of different schools. He is a boy in Junior high school and he always gets into fights. One night, Tyler and his friends went swimming at the quarry. While they are there, Tyler swims into a dead body. The body the he swims into is the school janitor. The mystery of the story is that no one knows who killed him. You will enjoy the excitement with the characters and you will not be able to keep your eyes off this book.