Kindle Edition Book Garden Publishing E-book at Nook/B&N for $2.99 Amazon Category:  Children Publisher: Book Garden Publishing, LLC ISBN-10:  0981861423 Type: Fiction Pages: 90 Copyright: March 16, 2010 ISBN-13: 9780981861425 Price: $2.99 (eBook) Wil Brooks can't get along with her cousin, Bud Dunphry. He is mean and doesn’t like playing with girls! Wil is tired of him giving her his “you’re going to got it” face. After the two of them have to stay in their rooms, Wil decides she has to try harder to understand her cousin and stay out of trouble. But can she? Wilhemena Brooks,’ cousin, Bud Dunphry come to live with her family. Wil, as she likes to be called, finds her pink pencil sharpener is missing after Christmas.  Wil knows Bud has it! Who else would have taken it?  Bud doesn’t like girls! In fact, Bud doesn’t like anybody.  Wil tries to ignore him but he pulls her friends hair, taken over games, and when Bud is in trouble he making his “you’re going to got it” face at her.  After a snowstorm closes school, Wil and her friends go sled riding. Bud shows up and starts a snowball fight which lands Wil in her room for the rest of the day for fighting. When her pencil sharpener is found, Right where she left it, Wil decides she has to try harder to understand her cousin and stay out of trouble. Her mother told her to be nice to Bud and to treat him like she would like to be treated. But what does Will learn?                               Excerpt Read an excerpt: http://jdholiday.blogspot.com/p/excerpt-from-chapter-book-for-6-to-9.html

REVIEW of The Great Snowball Escapade by Author and Illustrator Angela Cater
Wilhemena has had a rotten Christmas, thanks to her mean cousin Bud coming to stay. Things don’t get any better when she returns to school – not only is Bud in the same class, but she has to sit next to him! Bud is the school bully. He dictates who is allowed to play and where, he fights with Wil and her friends, deliberately gets her into trouble with teachers and her Mum, and there is no getting away from him because now he lives in her home!

Bud’s parents are going through a divorce, and Wil’s Mum encourages her to be understanding and nice to Bud, but that’s not easy when he’s so mean.

“The Great Snowball Escapade” has a believable and likeable heroine and children will easily identify with her and the situations she finds herself in. The book is effectively illustrated throughout with simple line-drawings.

Do Bud and Wil finally sort out their differences? You’ll just have to read the book to find out.
Angela Cater is the author and illustrator of:
The Adventures of Sailor Sam
A Perfect Nest for Mrs Mallard
Sailor Sam and the Two Sicknesses
Angela Cater blog: http://www.thebookwormreads.blogspot.com/
Her site: http://www.tabbycatpress.com/


Reviewer Wayne S. Walker from HOME SCHOOL BOOK REVIEW
The Great Snowball Escapade “a heart-warming story about the importance of understanding the problems of others and treating them as we would like to be treated…” http://homeschoolblogger.com/homeschoolbookreview/

REVIEWER Fran Lewis
This is definitely a FIVE SNOWMAN BOOK! Let’s hope the author brings Wil and Bud and her friends back in another novel.This book should be in every school library, guidance counselor’s office, public library, police youth groups, public libraries and
of course my own..."