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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is about a girl named Minty Fresh who finds a tree that has secrets inside it. The people who know about the tree, say that there is a ghost named 'Crazy Ike' that lives inside it and eats the secrets. Later in the book, Minty meets a boy named Raymond who keeps a notebook of these secrets. In this book both of them try to solve all the secrets and in the end they succeed. I did not like this book as much as the other books I have read. Even though they are Fantasy books, I am usually able to connect with the characters, but in this one I could not really connect with them. I was not a big fan of they way the author wrote the story and I did not get drawn into the book. Minty is trying to enjoy summer. Her best friend starts acting weird and she hears whispers from a tree in the woods behind her house. The tree is a place where people in her town leave their secrets. With her new, mysterious friend Raymond, whe begins to spy on her family, freinds, and neighbors in the hopes of discovering what secret belongs to whom and to help people begin to solve their problems. Sometimes major problems are just skimmed over, and it's got the old friendship changing in middle school thing with a lot of happily ever after resolutions. A cute breezy story. Here is a book where a child learns to look deeper at all the people around her as she tries to match secrets to neighbors. It is touching in the ways she tries to help everyone and grows in maturity as she does. The more she knows of others the more she finds they are alike. Each secret could be anyone's. I enjoyed this quick but deep read. no reviews | add a review
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After sixth grader Minty discovers a secret tree with a hollow trunk that holds the secrets of everyone in the neighborhood, Raymond, a new boy drawn to the tree and Minty start watching their neighbors. No library descriptions found.
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