The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Graff, Lisa

The Great Treehouse War

284 pp. | Philomel | May, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-17500-8 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-698-19593-6

(2) 4-6 Fifth grader Winnie Malladi-Maraj, exhausted by her competitive custody-sharing parents, moves into her treehouse. Nine classmates with their own family gripes join her, and the "Treehouse Ten" have an extremely good romp before communal kid-life eventually breaks down. The highly textured narrative--incorporating Post-it notes, texts, doodles, maps, and more--is a good-natured satire of helicopter parenting and a celebration of child ingenuity.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2017