Raymie Nightingale

I forget how cut and dry and matter-of-fact DiCamillo writes. What's left is room for the reader to put themselves in the story, so I like that. I also loved this story of three young ladies meeting each other at a time when they all needed a good friend. I'm glad I waited to read the series after it was complete. I'm also reading them out of order, but I don't think that's the end of the world.
A note about the new cover on this one (I read a copy with the original cover, where Raymie looked a teenager standing in water with a baton): I think Raymie now looks TOO young, like a 6 year old. This is just my opinion.