...wut. Instead of leaving the kids with actual adults, or even begging the Wakefield parents to watch the kids if they somehow don't have any adults to rely on, the Riccolis will be leaving the kids in the care of 12 year olds all weekend long while they're across the country.
No. Dad, if you can afford to just fly off to FL with the wife because her mother is sick, you can also just go to SV to watch your kids, dammit. I can accept Mrs. R leaving the kids for really unreasonably long stretches of time because of Plot and the BSC primed me for such things but these are sixth graders and should technically be 11 and no way in hell would kids who just nearly burned down the house be left alone.
I'm beginning to see why I remember nothing about these books beyond the covers. 0_O
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No. Dad, if you can afford to just fly off to FL with the wife because her mother is sick, you can also just go to SV to watch your kids, dammit. I can accept Mrs. R leaving the kids for really unreasonably long stretches of time because of Plot and the BSC primed me for such things but these are sixth graders and should technically be 11 and no way in hell would kids who just nearly burned down the house be left alone.
I'm beginning to see why I remember nothing about these books beyond the covers. 0_O