Shaking the Money Tree

....This book was a hand-me-down from my cousin. i started it at nine last night and finished it at 9:45 this morning.it was a really great book. I think that Kate and Freddy should've come to like eachother [like as in love]. Juanita should've stoped calling Kate Gormley. But hey they're just suggestions.Keep writing i want to read more of your books.

I cannot begin to describe the power this novel has. It has made me laugh and cry and continues to every time I read it. Shaking the Money Tree has been ignorantly dismissed as another cheap 100-something-page third grade novel with a catchy title. That's what I thought at first. Let me assure you - it is not. I read it for the first time in third grade and have read it over nearly every year after that. It sits proudly among my collection of Earnest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe, and Charles Dickens. Why? Because it is a maserpiece. I give you the Newberry Medal, Ms. Mullaney! Just please read this. No matter what age you are, you will appreciate the honesty and and truth, the absolute and bitter truth of this novel. There's a psychological aura and sincerety that shines like white light from an unknown source far too sophisticated for children. It is not a book that could be appreciated by third graders - that's the reading level - but something with a message that encompasses a lifetime. I am honored that I have had the priviledge to find this book. Take my advice: don't dismiss Shaking The Money Tree.