The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Series: Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Abbey Hayes is the heroine of her very own series by Anne Mazer. Abbey has curly red hair, collects calendars which is a quirky hobby, and is starting fifth grade. Her family is super talented. Older twins Isabel and Eva are sports stars, younger brother Alex is a genius, while Abbey’s mom is a lawyer and her dad owns his own website business. In contrast, Abbey feels small and insignificant. In the introductory book of the series, Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining, Abbey wishes to be like anyone else in her family. Then Abbey’s fifth-grade teacher announces that this year their grade will have a special creative writing workshop every week. As part of this special writing class, Abbey receives a notebook in which she can write whatever she wants. You might know this as “Plan B” writing—which is what students can do when they are finished with assigned writing. Soon after Abbey receives that notebook, she gets so caught up with writing in it that her teacher has to reprimand her: “Put the notebook away. We’re going to begin our math quiz.” My writing club students would know how she feels—and so do I. Yet Abbey continues to believe that she needs to become a sports star for her to be a “super member” of the Hayes family and so she diets, trains, and works out. I’m not sure why she latches specifically onto sports, but ultimately Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining is a light-hearted story about a girl who struggles to find her talent in all the wrong places. The rest of the series, which portrays Abbey continuing to grow as a writer while dealing with all of life’s various issues, is equally fun.

Reader reviewed by iki

This book is about a young girl and ther fifth grade year. There is so much you'll love about it. It is a younger book but fun for a quick little read. Have fun.

Reader reviewed by Debi

The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Every Dark Cloud has A Silver Lining is a great read!
The story is great:fast-paced, fun and light. But more than the story itself, I really enjoyed the fabulous quotes through out the book.

Reader reviewed by Holly

Abby Hayes is starting fifth grade. Her supersibs, the perfect older twins and her genius little brother, have already proved their Hayes worthiness. This is going to be Abby's year and she's going to record every moment of it in her journal! You should read this book and discover something quite amazing!