Eva's Journey is the newest offering from Judi Curtin, author of the well loved Alice and Megan series.
Eva's father is a rich and powerful builder. Eva is used to only the best of everything; yearly trips to New York for a new wardrobe, private school, all the latest gadgets. But the building market is collapsing, and Eva's treats and luxuries have to go. Soon they're selling their beautiful house and moving into a fixer upper, and Eva's posh private school has become the local public.
Desperate to regain her former glory, Eva visits a fortune teller who tells her to do good deeds. Eva begins watching the people around her and, in the process, learns that she's not as badly off as she thought...
A modern day fairy tale, Eva's Journey charts Eva's progress as she learns that stuff, while nice, is not what makes life worthwhile. The friendship she begins with the odd girl in her class makes her new life more bearable, and the steadfast friend from her old life makes it more fun. Watching out for other people distracts her from her own troubles, and before she knows it she's enjoying herself in her run down house, last year's clothes and no gadgets.
A timely story and one I enjoyed a lot.
Victoria looked around approvingly.
'The house is looking lovely,' she said to my dad. 'You've got a talent for home improvement.'
I wondered how Dad would take that. Up to recently he'd had a talent for running one of the biggest businesses in town.
But Dad looked at Victoria like she was his best friend in the whole world.
'Thanks,' he said, beaming so much that he accidentally thumped his finger with the hammer.
Victoria and I giggled, and fled upstairs.
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