The Postcard

The Postcard

By Tony Abbott

This book was published by the Little, Brown and Company company in the year 2008 in New York. I found this book in our school library and it has 357 pages. I chose this book because when I saw the cover and read the back it looked like a very original and interesting book.

This book is titled "The Postcard," because when Jason has to stay in Florida with his dad after his grandma, who he hardly knows, dies, he finds a postcard in one of her old desks. This postcard leads to a mystery about his grandma and a man who is supposedly Jason's grandpa, but nobody knows who or where Jason's grandpa is, and the postcard might lead him to find out. He also finds a magazine that has a story in it that's written by his "grandpa" about him and the girl that he loves, but her father hates him and is determined to keep them apart.

Before Jason has even had time to settle in his grandmas apartment that him and his dad are fixing up to sell, his dad falls off of a ladder ( after drinking a couple of beers) while trying to fix an eaves trough and is rushed to the hospital. Jason then meets the girl who mows his grandmas lawn. Her name is Dia , which means day.

Then, Jason finds a pin hole in the postcard, which is of the Hotel De Soto, in one of the windows. He decides to go check it out and, once inside the hotel, finds that Dia has followed him. So he tells her the whole story and she thinks its interesting and decides to help him. So they go on a big adventure and have people chasing after them and trying to stop them, for some reason unknown to them, but they figure that the story that they are finding is worth something other than the value of finding Jason's grandpa.

Will Jason and Dia get the rest of the story and find out who Jason's grandpa really is? Read the book to find out!

This book was not written from a christian perspective because they do not mention God at all in the book and it could have been written with a lot more Christianity in it. The character Jason, for example says a couple of words that the author blocked out. If Jason would have been written about in a more christian way, the author would just have had him say something he wouldn't have to block out.

I really enjoyed this book because I love mystery and adventure books. I liked that it was somewhat realistic but had a touch of fantasy in it and that it had some mystery in it too. There wasn't really anything that I didn't like about this book.

I would recommend this book to people who like adventure and mystery because this book is full of both of those things.