Asking For Trouble

I read this book a few years ago and it was amazing! It’s called, Asking for Trouble, and it’s the first book in the London Confidential series.  It was the first book that I have ever read by Sandra Byrd, and I just fell in love with her writing.

When her family moves to London, 15-year-old Savvy Smith has to make her way in a new school and in a new country. She just knows the school newspaper is the right place for her, but she doesn’t have the required experience. Can she come up with a way to prove herself and nab the one available position on the newspaper staff at Wexburg Academy?

                I love this book! I can connect to Savvy with the way the author tells her story. You can really sense how lonely she feels after moving to a new country while leaving all her friends and family back in America. The author goes into great detail about the sights she sees while walking the streets of London and you feel like you are there, too. For example, Sandra Byrd writes, “The streets were lined with walls made of crumbling stone and held together with ivy. Wrought iron posts and lamps lit each corner, and I half expected Sherlock Holmes to show up.”  You get that feeling of walking down a London street in the olden days.  Sandra tells us about the struggles of being the new girl in school, and the country, and learning how much different London is from America. You get to look into a new culture and there way of living. This book is fantastic and keeps you wishing you could live in London.  I hope you love this book as much as I do.