Summer 2005 Review:

Jackson Jones and mission green top is a story we can all learn from.  I think Jackson is a kid anyone can relate to.  He’s a young boy with friends who sometimes make things worse.  He is a kid trying to make a reputation for himself.  All he wants to do is play basket ball and act like a kid.  When trouble happens to Rooters, the local garden, Jackson is called to do something greater than all of them.

  Jackson is a kid who loves to play basketball, but when his mother gives him a plot of land at Rooters, Jackson finds that gardening isn’t the coolest thing to do.  The school bully finds this as Jackson’s weak spot and begins to bully him.   When friends try to stick up for Jackson, the bully only uses this as an excuse to bully him more.  On top of all this, his mother is starting school to study plants leaving Jackson to be a guy Cinderella as he would say.

When the Jones’ receive a phone call that Rooters is going to be bulldozed to the ground, Jackson and his friends suddenly become heroes and must save the garden.  When rain stops their protests, Jackson finds that he is the only one to save the garden.  Will Rooters stay in the city or be bulldozed?  What will ever happen to the bully?  I’ll leave you to read the book and find out.

 I would recommend this book to kids of the age of 12 or under but the lesson it teaches should be learned by anyone.

 I enjoy this story and would defiantly read it again. I enjoyed the fact that Jackson is such a real character.  This story is very believable and I liked the moral it teaches.  When you read this book, you can actually visualize the characters and the problems they’re facing.  Jackson is just a normal kid who doesn’t like vegetables, plays with his friends, and is trying to be the man of the house.  What else could go wrong? 

~ Casey Curry, grade 7,  Linesville High School

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