The Harpers' Holiday Horror: A BBLS Story

Best-selling teenage author brings more laughs and shenanigans with book two in her hilarious middle-grade series BBLS.A smothering mother an alien brother TV-stealing grandmas a purple puppy-is anyone normal in rascally nine-year-old Aaliyahs family? Sibling rivalry has met its match with the hilarious hijinks from this big brother-little sister duo sure to delight readers with one ridiculous situation after the next. She doesnt mean it but whenever nine-year-old Aaliyah Harper does anything utter madness ensues. Couple that with a stifling mother who calls her The Baby two trouble-seeking grandmas an alien brother and a family road-trip vacation and its a recipe for disaster. What could possibly go wrong? Humor mischievous capers and family drama permeate The Harpers Holiday Horror the second book in the Big Brother Little Sister middle-grade series from bestselling teenage author Elena Southworth. Written in an engaging rotating character entry style the story finds Aaliyah and her family getting ready for a memorable Grand Canyon vacation to celebrate Thanksgiving and especially The Babys ninth birthday. (Also known as the day to honor the most special most perfect most angelic innocent creature that has ever existed in all of history! according to Aaliyahs over-the-top mom.) But this time? Aaliyah is on a mission-The Matthew Making Theory mission-to find out the truth: if her brother is an alien put on earth disguised as a human teenager in order to pick on his unsuspecting little sister. Not everyone is thrilled that the Harpers will be traveling with their two motorcycle-riding heavy metal fan grandmas Agnes and Pearl as well as Matthews girlfriend Delaneys family the Emersons-least of which the Emersons themselves who from unfortunate experience think all of the Harpers are weirdos. And for siblings Matthew Aaliyah and twenty-one-year-old Camille being stuck on a three-hour car ride with their crazy family is nothing short of misery. Aaliyahs innocent escapades somehow land her hiding in a hotels dirty laundry cart being locked in an ice-skating ponds bathroom accidentally dying Grandma Agness new puppy purple finding her family on the evening news after borrowing a river raft witnessing her two grandmas swiping a fire truck to take out on a joyride (only to have to bail them out of jail) requiring multiple police responses in less than twenty-four hours and having the hotel manager say they are the most annoying family he has dealt with in twenty years after giving them the boot from their room. Well...theres always Christmas right? After a calamity of a bug-infested owl-residing Christmas tree cut fresh from the forest by their exasperated dad (since the Harpers are banned from the hardware store) the family instead celebrates the holiday in their living room at the foot of a festively decorated...cactus?! Aaliyah may be troublesome and a magnet for mayhem but her eccentric family knows adventure and humor will follow.