This book came onto my radar via NetGalley. I was lucky to receive an ARC for review. Katie Beudert provided excellent southern narration that provided the perfect ambiance for a beauty pageant and murder mystery. I thought this book was a lot of fun. The characters were colorful. This is a good summer read to escape from the real world day-to-day. Read if you’re a fan of Miss Congeniality.

Maybe people who haven't read Dororo would like this retelling? But I'll be honest, I'm very tired of gritty retellings of stories, is whimsy and humor really something so lame and childlike that we should just eliminate it from all stories to make it 'for adults'? It's just such a bummer.

Excellent book with great plot and characters.

I liked meeting Plato in this book. I learned about history and Ancient Greece and the Olympics.

A little slow but I loved the characters and history. It made me want to go back to Florence and see the artwork with more appreciation.

Great sequel to the first amazing book! Kiera Cass keeps readers engaged with suspenseful, page turning chapters, and plenty of plot twists along the way. This books is keeping me excited for the next book!

Such great Portland references - fun to know all the actual places!

My 4.5 year old loved this book and would rate it 5 stars. I thought this was one of the hokier books in the Magic Treehouse and did not find it as interesting and educational as some of the other more historical tales.

“The Cartoonists Club: a graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier is Easily one of my favorite books I’ve read all year! It’s some of Raina’s best work and I STRONGLY RECOMMEND it!

Ellen outside of the lines is a really good book pre-teens and early teenagers. It is about Ellen, a middle school "girl" who is figuring out how to be herself/ who she is. I would rate this book 5/5 stars because it was a really good book with really descriptive but not too descriptive that it would be boring.