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Carter Jones, his mom, and his sisters are puzzled by an impressive real-life butler showing up on their doorstep at 7:15 one morning. They have no idea how their lives will change! A beautiful, humorous, and compassionate story MG

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The only other Schmidt I‘ve read was Orbiting Jupiter (which knocked me on my butt) so I really should‘ve seen this coming. What a delightful and unexpectedly powerful, relatable story. The audio narration was amazing. Christopher Gebauer was convincingly a British butler, middle school boy, and grumpy vice principal in the same breath. 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏

I am loving this audiobook! The narration is spot on. I‘m even finding myself interested in the game of cricket. If the butler pulls a Mary Poppins at the end I will SOB. ☂

This is a humorous and poignant middle reader level book about a 12 yo boy and his family going through some really tough issues when a very British butler shows up on their very American, chaotic doorstep. (Think Mary Poppins, without the magical bits.) I especially loved how the kids adopted the Butler‘s speech patterns.There is a lot of cricket, both being played and used symbolically, to deal with loss, responsibility.A wonderful read.

Well this was such fun. You‘ll need to suspend a bit of disbelief for this Mary Poppins-esque tale of a very proper British butler showing up to help with Carter‘s family while his dad is deployed. It‘s not flawless, but there‘s a lot going on under the surface here while still managing to be frequently laugh-out-loud funny. Alas, I still understand almost nothing about cricket. #middlegrade #kidlit

Reading on my lunch break. The narrator just referred to his little sister as a pain in the glutes, and now I have a new favorite fake-cuss. #middlegrade #kidlit

It has taken me 11 pages to discern that Pay Attention, Carter Jones is going to be an utter delight. I am about to gobble up every last thing in this photo.

Also, to whoever stuck that barcode right smack over Gary D. Schmidt's name: 🤦‍♀️

#BookMail from the past couple weeks. 😍 I‘m excited.