Red Rag Riddle - A Review

The Red Rag Riddle is a required reader for Literature and Creative Writing through ACE.  The author is Grace Whitman.

The story is very cute.  Two schools need computers, but they don't have the money.  The kids decide to attempt to raise the money on their own.    They begin doing odd jobs and decide to open a lemonade stand.  They do all of this to give the money to the school.  They do run into a dilemma when they realize that a family needs some of the money.  They have to make a decision on what is more important, the family or their original goal.  There's mystery involved when someone is spying on the kids or when money is stolen from the lemonade money box. 

This is a cute book.  It has the classic Ace and Christi characters that are featured throughout the ACE curriculum.  A lot of the main characters are christian kids around the same age as my daughter.  They have lots of things they deal with, and show examples of having to make choices on purpose to do what God would want them to do.  There are examples of kids praying for other people, and learning about giving to others.

This was the first Ace and Christi book Laura read.  I know there are others in the lower grades, but Laura never read them.  She liked the book, though she said it wasn't her favorite.  She said that there was a lot of characters in the story, and that made it harder to get into it like she usually does.  A part of that may be because she hasn't read any of the other Ace and Christi books and only knows the characters from her ACE paces.

Overall this is a good book.  It is light-hearted for the most part.  The jokes are corny, but Laura loved them. The tone of the book isn't serious, and a nice contrast with the serious Saved at Sea and the mission minded The Little Green Frog.