Kourtney's Book Review

Information About the Book

Title: Sender Unknown

Author: Sallie Lowenstein

Publisher: Scholastic

Place & Year of Publication: USA 2006

Number of Pages: 258

Where you found the book: School library

Story Review

Mark is a VERY smart guy who graduated at the age of 14. Since then he has loved his job as a fix-it man. But one day, after his high school reunion, he decides to change his life in big ways.

He gets a good high paying job, a new car, and he buys a big old house. But there’s a mystery about this house. Every day (except Sundays) he receives about 15 catalogs.

All these catalogs are toy catalogs and apparently they’ve been coming to this address for 52 years. Another thing that these catalogs have in common is that none of them have a return address.

One day he decides to order out of some of them. He gets his order but it’s not quite what he expected. But there are no refunds and no returns. He tries to find an answer to the mystery of the catalogs by teaming up with an ex-cop. On the way he finds out something very interesting about himself. But will the mystery stay hidden? After all, the sender is unknown.

Christian Perspective

This book has no mention of God or Christianity. But Mark deals with his problems in a nice calm manner. He’s pretty patient with getting an answer. The thing that he could’ve done though, was to ask God for help and guidance. He also could’ve been more considerate of Elliot’s (his personal secretary) feelings, because Elliot was just trying to help Mark with his job, but it got on Marks nerves. Even though it wasn’t a Christian book there weren’t any swears or bad language in it.

My Thoughts

I really enjoyed reading this book. It’s very well written and it made me want to keep reading. The author had A LOT of imagination and I think that in order to enjoy this book the reader also needs to have a good imagination. It’s a longer book so if you’re not a very big reader then it might overwhelm you a bit. It has a pretty small font size. I would recommend this book to someone who likes to read, has a good imagination, and someone who enjoys mysteries.