Book 5: Ida B:and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan

Ida B. Applewood talks to the trees in the orchard, sends letters to Canada by homemade raft down the brook, and best of all gets to spend her days at home learning and playing. One of Ida B’s most charming characteristics is her magnetic personality. She pulls the reader, willingly, into her world and allows us to enjoy her well prepared plans for any possibility. When Ida B hears the trees’ news that something bad is coming she has no way of preparing for what is coming. By the end Ida B has grown as an individual and the story has gone in a circle and slightly mirrors the beginning. This book causes the reader to think about how their attitude and actions affect those around them and to see things in another perspective.