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ISBN: | 0061893943 (ISBN13: 9780061893940) |
Edition Language: | English |
Mark Levin
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.46 | 107 Users | 32 Reviews
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Finances are tight for the Hitchcock family this year, which means no summer vacation! But siblings Maddy and Benji are secretly delighted to escape the annual torturous ritual of family bonding. Then Dad announces bigness: a cost-effective week long house swap in Paris, trading places with a French family named the Vadims.But instead of a relaxing European vacation, it quickly becomes clear that something is very off about this house swap. The facts about the Vadims don’t quite add up. Then threatening characters start showing up, demanding a mysterious object.Soon the Hitchcocks are caught in a whirl of intrigue and running for their lives through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris, without even knowing why.
Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett ,a Hollywood writer-director-producer team, make their children’s book debut with this hilarious, action packed caper.
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Title | : | The Family Hitchcock |
Author | : | Mark Levin |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
Published | : | August 23rd 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books |
Categories | : | Mystery. Adventure. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.46 From 107 Users | 32 ReviewsEvaluate Epithetical Books The Family Hitchcock
Sort of a Man Who Knew Too Little, but with a whole family. Tensions are high in the Hitchcock family and they get an adventure out of their house-swap that puts them in danger and gets them to start working together. Fun, lighthearted with some funny.
There were some funny bits to this story, it was also very interesting, and would appeal to boys and girls. Which is great. The only caveat was it seemed to focus A LOT on whether Mom and Dad Hitchcock were getting a divorce. Quite a few mentions of them sleeping back to back as opposed to curled in each other's arms, because clearly that means they're getting a divorce, and magically by the end of the story they cuddle again while sleeping. Yea...really odd and unnecessary.
This book is a nice nod to Hitchcock -- I'm assuming that's what the Hollywood-writers intended -- with an intriguing mystery and some heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat moments.I was surprised, though, that in a book seemingly intended for kids (the jacket reads "Ages 9 up"), the word "rapist" is used, in the context of a "Who knows who these people are?" discussion:"This Vadim guy could be a ten-year-old boy, for all you know. Or a serial-rapist-vegetarian-robber-murderer."The
The family dynamics are spot on, and the story moves fast with plenty of day-in-the-life humor. What makes the story particularly fun is the way that many of the misconceptions often dropped into the story by Maddy unravel. Upon arriving in Paris, the Hitchcocks unwittingly land in the middle of an international police investigation. The best part of the story is ... See the rest in our review at the Reading Tub.
I got an ARC of this book from my favorite bookstore, Cover to Cover. I have a feeling this will be a favorite book my classroom next year. It is part mystery, part action adventure story, part kid friendly espionage.The four members of the family Hitchcock decide to swap houses with a family from Paris as a way to save money on summer vacation. When the family gets to Paris they are quickly caught in the mix of a scheme to sell top secret information. It turns out that the family from Paris is
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