Trouble at the Crab Shack Café (Ellie Booton's Journal, #1) / Ellie Booton's Journal (ePub)

Introducing a new heroine: eleven year old Ellie Booton. She's quirky, funny, a thinker, a doer, a bit of a worrier and a natural problem solver. Moving with her family into her grandma's house overlooking the sea in a sleepy seaside town, means starting over: new school, new friends with a bit of luck.

Gilby Flynn casts a shadow over school, and home life is a bumpy ride - but when Ellie teams up with Elsie, things start to look up. It's summer and the Crab Shack Café looks like it will be a haven - until things start to go wrong. The weather is AWFUL. Seagulls screech, the wind howls, and there's TROUBLE in the air. And who is the mysterious boy in the blue jacket?

Atmospheric, thoughtful and heart warming, this funny story, told by Ellie, delves into life at its trickiest.

Review by Ancient Mariner, Amazon Top 100 Reviewer : "Ellie Booton is a bright, observant, sensitive, practical young girl who undertakes to write a journal describing a tumultuous summer in her little village. From her new friendship, to multi-generational family dynamics, to a sibling love story, to a beloved neighbor's financial crisis, events both large and small are filtered through her eyes and imagination and presented to us as lovely and fresh thoughts about the many virtues, pleasures, and small kindnesses we often overlook. Spiced with sly good humor, some very funny bits, and the occasional bit of edge, this book is never heavy-handed, but is always brisk, direct and engaging. Ellie is a cheerful, unflappable and genuine companion, and this book is a calm, clever and mellow discovery."

The next in this series: The Lighthouse Code