hide and seek by clare sambrook

2020 Keyword Challenge - November (LOOK, Forest, Out, Color, Lock, Now)

This was a variation of the keyword "look" to meet the challenge.

If I hadn't selected this for the November keyword challenge I would have been hard pressed to finish it.

I can't say all that was wrong was with the book. My 2020 mental state surely contributed to my reading and it may just have been the wrong time for this book (though I'm not about to re-read it at a right time!)

Most of the characters annoyed me and the writing style was choppy - yet it was being told through the eyes of a 9 year old boy, so I understand the purpose behind it.

Summary from Goodreads: Meet Harry Pickles, the fastest boy in the world (well, at least in school). big brother to Daniel (who runs like a girl but is, in his own twerpy way, a star), and the firstborn son of Mo and Pa, the best-looking parents in their Notting Hill elementary school parking lot. Harry's life, like any other nine-year-old's, is a colorful, frenetic, and fun blur of lunch boxes, vocabulary tests, and keeping up with his pals Piggy and Terry--not to mention keeping an eye on his kid brother Daniel. Mo, a successful, well-known journalist, and Pa, a surgeon, have built a wonderful world for Harry and Daniel to grow up in, but when a school outing results in Daniel's vanishing, the complicated adult world of police investigations and interviews, searches of the countryside, recriminations, and ultimate responsibility come crashing in on a very confused Harry.