What a disappointing book! I always recommended these simple reads to my struggling boy readers in Year 4, but not any more.

The first paragraph is present tense and the rest is past tense.

Kyah and Shae come running into the kitchen on page 13. They aren’t introduced as brothers and I don’t know which is which.

Two big questions on page 20 are both said, rather than asked, and on page 5, I laugh as Studs and Hacker might fly off!

I force myself to finish the book. Approximately the first quarter is about Timmy and his friends preparing for their holidays, saying what they are doing. None of this is revisited. The book finishes while Timmy is still on Sunshine Island.

This book will NOT improve a child’s reading. Scholastic has let itself down here. I wonder what the other books in this series are like.