Pasture Bedtime

By Sigmund Brouwer, Sabrina Gendron (Illustrator)

Book #1 in the Charlie's Rules series

A quiet boy's orderly life is upended by a lively newcomer and a mysterious illness on the farm.

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112 pages· 9,039 words· Est. 1.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Charlie Dembinski craves order, but life on a veterinary farm is anything but quiet. When Amy Ma, the lively daughter of a new bookkeeper, arrives, Charlie's world is turned upside down. Her endless questions and energy disrupt his peace, yet when a neighbor's dog falls ill with a mysterious sickness, Charlie discovers Amy's approach might hold the key to solving the mystery. Can Charlie embrace the chaos and find a new way to navigate his world? Dive into the first book of the Charlie's Rules series to find out.

From the publisher

Eleven-year-old Charlie Dembinski likes to keep his life organized and quiet. This is a challenge when you live on a farm where your mother runs a veterinary clinic for the local livestock, neighbors’ pets and sometimes rescued wildlife. To complicate Charlie’s orderly life even further, his mother hires a bookkeeper to live on the farm who brings along her daughter, Amy Ma. And Amy is anything but quiet! Her constant questions and attempts to spend time with Charlie really bother him, and he doesn’t understand why the adults seem to like her so much. But when a neighbor’s beloved dog gets sick with a mysterious illness, Charlie realizes that Amy’s outgoing approach might not be all that bad. This is the first book in the Charlie’s Rules series.

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