My main problem with the story, if a problem it was, was the ages of the kids involved. My son is ten and my cousin, who I am very close to is twelve. I therefore have a real problem with stories about pre teens and young teens. I have had the disussion with ricky before and I have had to get over it by concentrating wholly on the story and not think about the age. It was quite hard here.
One of the great things about the story was that they weren't grown up minds in kids bodies. The kids here actually thought and acted like children (mostly)
The story was quite sweet, with all the angst and end of the world dilemmas that happen to children at that age. Every small problem is insurmoutable and every comment means a whole load of things and all of them bad.
I tend to find stories like this slow and I skip chunks of it but I really liked this one, there was enough to keep my interest even during the sport sections... I really am not into sport of any kind in stories but I kind of got into it here.
My main criticism really isn't his fault. I hate the way things are set out on Nifty and I find it incredibly hard to read. However the story itself makes up for it as it is very easy to read. As has been mentioned it has a certain innocence about it which is great given the ages of the children. Not all stories that are about children are innocent and I find that a lot of time they set the age then write the characters as a lot more mature and much older than they actually are. This one doesn't do that so much although it is totally inevitable for an adult to let adult thought processes, vocabulary, experience etc creep in and Grady in particular does seem quite old at times.
Yes, I like this story and I would read more.