Eddie Whatever
Binding: Hardcover
Age 10+
Family & Home Stories
Full of whimsy and intrigue, this is ultimately a touching story of inter-generational bonds.
Thirteen-year-old Eddie needs to do a community service project in preparation for his bar mitzvah. Against his better judgment, he ends up with a volunteering gig at Silver Brook Pavilions retirement home, where the residents call him "Eddie Whatever" rather than worry about remembering his last name. These old folks soon upend all Eddie's assumptions about the boringness of the elderly. There's a dramatic courtship unfolding, long-hidden secret identities, a rumor of a vengeful ghost, and a thief on the loose. When suspicion falls on Eddie, he teams up with his fellow volunteer (and crush), Tessa, to solve the mysteries of Silver Brook.
Creators
Lois Ruby is a former librarian and the author of 20 books for young readers. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband.
Reviews
Veteran author Lois Ruby’s cleverly constructed mystery combines robberies and robotics, baseball and bar mitzvahs, quirky characters and abundant humor, into one enormously enjoyable story. Never has a community service project produced more comic, creepy, calamitous, and (in the end) completely satisfying results than Eddie’s stint at Silver Brook. Hooray for Eddie Whatever!
Eddie will win your heart.
