Review by Booklist Review
Last summer (The Forget-Me-Not Summer, 2015), sisters Marigold, Zinnia, and Lily went to Cape Cod with Great-AuntSunny, and among other adventures, Marigold landed a small role in a big movie. This book starts at the premiere of Night Sprites, where Marigold is horrified to find her role has been cut. Now, all the subtle and not-so-subtle bragging she has done is for naught. It's a good thing that she and her humiliation can escape to Cape Cod again, where she and her sisters can help plan Sunny's wedding. This charming story is filled with familiar experiences (sibling rivalry and crushes) and more specific plot points (Marigold's attempts to become more ordinary and Zinnie's efforts to get into a writing program). Lily, meanwhile, remains an adorable counterpoint. Howland expands her story by weaving in information about everything from stargazing to flower pressing to water safety. With Sunny married off, perhaps it's time to bring the Silver Sisters adventures home to Los Angeles, because fans will be eagerly waiting for more.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2016 Booklist
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
The Silver sisters are back on Cape Cod for another satisfying summer adventure in this sequel to The Forget-Me-Not Summer (2015). When aspiring actress Marigold's bit part in a movie is cut after she has bragged to her seventh-grade classmates, she shuns acting, commits to being merely ordinary, and lobbies her parents to send the three sisters to Pruet, Massachusetts, earlier than planned to help with Aunt Sunny's wedding preparations. Told in the alternating third-person voices of Marigold and Zinnie, and including little sister, Lily, this charming story touches on issues ranging from angst-ridden first crushes to sister crimes. Zinnie, hoping to be accepted into her school's writers group, sneaks Marigold's diary, using its contents as her submission, which leads to a brawl and the crushing of the multitiered wedding cake. All is resolved neatly in this often humorous yet thoughtful sister story. Howland nicely captures the bewilderment of young girls as they begin to mature. The girls learn the importance of being true to themselves, of helping others, and of friends and sisters. Background from the first book is interwoven aptly, allowing the sequel to stand alone; the sisters are white. Readers finding this book as pleasant as a day at the beach spent with old friends will hope the trio returns to Pruet next summer. (Fiction. 9-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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