I mean, the book isn’t as terrible as it was, but it’s still really bad. Our class has continued to read “Surviving the Applewhites” and it is still boring. Yes, we have learned to understand all of the characters better, but almost everyone in the class in falling asleep. To sum up how boring this book is, the most exciting part so far was when they found a dead butterfly. I wish we could stop reading it, but apparently we have to read it until the very end. I honestly cannot understand why this earned a Newberry Honor Book award. There is no action, mystery, or comedy. Just a girl with cereal and butterfly problems, a weird kid who had a mishap with burning down the school but found a new love of singing and acting, and a dog just being a dog.