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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
The second volume in the escapades of fourth-grader Penelope Crumb begins with a class trip to the Portwaller History Museum, which awakens in Penelope concerns about memory and loss as well as a weakness for well-intentioned white lies and petty crime. Never without her deceased father's old toolbox, Penelope knows all about trying to hold on to those you've lost, but when her best friend, Patsy Cline Roberta Wilson, buys a "friends forever" necklace in the museum gift shop with an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Younger Fiction
Never without her deceased father's old toolbox, Penelope knows all about trying to hold on to those you've lost, b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More