Böcker av Jill Ammon Vanderwood

Mom's Choice Award-winning author Jill Ammon Vanderwood presents her fourth book in The Path You Choose series, where the reader is the main character and will be encouraged to make choices at regular intervals. Keeping Secrets begins with the main character having a slumber party at her home. She asks her guests to be sworn to secrecy as each friend reveals their deepest secrets. This book explores what you can do if one friend is a witness to a crime; another is depressed or suicidal; one girl's parents are going through a divorce; someone is addicted to drugs, and another friend has experienced sexual abuse. Your secret could be that you struggle to bring up your grades in school. All the girls are nervous when it's their turn to tell their secret. However, one friend, Kaylee, gets up and runs from the house, saying she will never tell. Her action leads her friends to guess what her secret might be. Is a promise a promise, no matter what? Are there some secrets that you cannot keep?

When the dogcatcher tries to snag Domino, it quickly becomes clear that it might be the magical rug he's after. Alyssa and Grandma Emma quickly follow Domino through the rug back to Wishville, where he tries to outsmart the dogcatcher without getting caught. Things don't go as planned, however, and before they know it, they've got more than the dogcatcher to worry about-they're in the path of a bank robber! With Domino busy taking care of that sticky situation, Alyssa finally gets her wish to become a singer, but arrives on stage just before curtain time without a drummer, and Grandma demonstrates her talents in a cooking competition, but accidentally starts the auditorium on fire! Can magic and wishes bring them all back together safely or is this the end of their exciting adventures in Wishville?

Grandma Emma signed up for cooking school not realizing that she was actually learning to perform magic-but she's not very good at it yet. Grandma accidentally turns her black and white dog, Domino, pink and green, and when she tries a recipe to add more days in the week, the magic formula expands and spills onto the kitchen rug! Her ten-year-old granddaughter Alyssa comes to help clean up the mess, but instead, Grandma, Domino, and Alyssa find themselves falling through the rug to a magical place called Wishville, where all wishes are granted.

Grandma Emma, Domino, and Alyssa return home from Wishville and everything slowly goes back to normal. That is, until Grandma Emma accidentally summons a tornado during a neighborhood event. Grandma, along with four other senior ladies, are taken up into a whirlwind and no one knows where they went! And, if that weren't bad enough, Alyssa's cousin, Autumn, and the dogs are accidentally transported to Wishville in a beautiful new car. Once she gets there, Autumn quickly realize how fun it is to have all her wishes come true and even Domino and Sonja, the pink poodle, might not be able to convince her to ever come home.So with two of Grandma's friends deciding they don't want to be found, and cousins who are having fun with their wishes, Alyssa has her work cut out for her. She'll have to take another trip through the rug, searching through all the magical clues to help get the ladies and her family back-all before her aunt comes to pick her children up from Grandma's house. Alyssa, Domino and Grandma Emma must join together for another unexpected adventure, and it's one none of them will ever forget.