Best Wishes, Joe Brady

by Mary Pope Osborne

Sunny Dickens' easy-going life in Summerville, North Carolina, is disrupted, pleasantly but with some uncertainty, when handsome soap-opera star Joe Brady singles her out from the other waitresses at the dinner theater where he is performing

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 1994

About the author

Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will Osborne.

Reviews

[Bap · Rating 5 out of 5]

If this is what the young adult genre is count me in. This is a compelling coming of age story that is completely real capturing the innocence of 18 years old Sunny , the cadence of the south, and the decency of the working class. In this age of angry white rural voters it is good to remember the decency.