• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 October #2
  Three moves after leaving their big house, first-grader Turtle, third-grader Twig, and their parents are finally settling into their new tiny home in Happy Trails, Colorado, and are starting their year's third first day of school. While Turtle easily makes new friends, Twig has a difficult time, and it seems that some of her classmates might even be making fun of her. She misses Bo, her grandma's Great Dane, the most, and Twig is devastated when she learns that Grandma might have to find him a new home. With a little help from her teacher, Twig joins the Social Skills Club, where she makes new friends and finds out that her classmates weren't making fun of her at all—and actually want to help her find a way to bring Bo to Happy Trails. Quick, illustrated chapters, appealing characters, and interesting plot points make for a promising chapter-book series starter. The girls' tiny house and their sisterly bond are sure to draw early readers back in for more. Grades 1-3. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

Jennifer Richard Jacobson is the award-winning author of many books for children and young adults including the early-reader series Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle, and her most recent book, The Dollar Kids. A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, when not writing, Jennifer provides trainings in Writer's Workshop for teachers. Jennifer lives in Maine with her husband and dog.

Paula Franco is a children's book illustrator living in Rosario, Argentina.