See You at Harry's is a realistic fiction novel by Jo Knowles. Fern is a twelve-year-old girl who feels ignored. Her dad made a business called Harry's Homemade Ice Cream and Family Restaurant. But since hardly any people come, he decides to want to make it become busier by making commercials. Fern's mom keeps on leaving to go to meditate. Holden (who is Fern's brother) gets bullied because he has a boyfriend. Sarah (her sister) helps work at the restaurant but tries to make excuses so that she wouldn't work. And Charlie is the youngest child in the family who gets the most attention. But one day, he gets really bored that he starts to want to distract Fern while she was doing her homework. Since she was busy, she couldn't and didn't want to play with him. All of a sudden Charlie starts running away until something terrible happens. He got hurt but he didn't whine about it. And that all leads to something much terrible to happen the next day, which destroys the family.
What I Just Read
In chapter 5, the phone rings. Mom gets a phone call from Fern's dad and he says he has a big surprise for the family. Fern thinks it's going to be something that will embarrass her family, since most of the surprises are embarrassing. Her siblings also know that it's not going to be a good thing. Once the family is out in the driveway to see their surprise, they open their mouths wide open and are speechless. They see that the ice-cream truck has a huge photo of Charlie's face while he was licking his ice-cream. Which really shocks Charlie but his dad thinks that it will draw attention for people to come to the restaurant. Sure it does, because everyone comes just so that they could get a picture of Charlie while he says his phrase, "See you at Hawee's." At first I was excited because I thought that Charlie would be so happy, but I actually found out that he was shocked.
