Pay Attention, Carter Jones
Gary D. Schmidt
Subjects
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Facts & Information - lists, stats and plenty of facts
Average rating
Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep. He announces he is here to stay to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken.
In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all adult in his life and navigate the butler’s notions of decorum and love of cricket. And ultimately, when his burden of grief and anger from the past can no longer be ignored, Carter learns that a burden becomes lighter when it is shared.
Sparkling with humour, this insightful and compassionate story is the latest from the award-winning author of Orbiting Jupiter.
Reviews
When the fraying piece of thread that is holding Carter's family together starts threatening to give way any second a mysterious man turns up on the Jones' doorstep with a bowler hat and silk gloves calling him self a gentleman's gentleman and his mum doesn't know what to say.Little does she know that this man is going to take hold of that fraying thread and neatly stitch it back to gather again while listening to her daughter play Rule Britannia on the key board-fortissimo of course!Pay Attention,Carter Jones will make you laugh cry and never want it to never end.
Anonymous 14.08.2020
