Piper Reed

Piper Reed is a series of children's books written by Kimberly Willis Holt. The first book, Piper Reed, Navy Brat, was published in 2007. The story focuses on nine-year-old Piper Reed; a dyslexic Navy brat whose family has just been stationed in Pensacola, Florida, and it shows Piper's life with her sensitive, bossy, and slightly chubby older sister and her little sister, a five-year-old child prodigy. The books are illustrated by Christine Davenier.

Piper Reed, A nine-year-old dyslexic Navy brat, the daughter of a Navy chief. Piper loves to draw and loves art class, but plans on becoming one of the Blue Angels when she grows up. Piper has a sensitive, slightly chubby older sister named Tori, and at times Tori's weight is the object of Piper's taunts. Piper also has a younger sister named Sam who is a child spelling bee prodigy who likes fish and owns a pet goldfish named Peaches (who died in the second book from being overfed, but Peaches was soon replaced by another goldfish named Peaches the Second). At times Piper can be rude, but is not a bad person. She goes on big adventures with her amazing family and is very spontaneous! In the end she gets close to her dad and sister Tori Reed...

Tori Reed, Piper's older sister, who has a love of food and snacks but is slightly chubby. Sometimes Piper uses Tori's weight as a way to get back at her by teasing her, and a few times before has called Tori fat (this basically was only mentioned and never really happened much in the books). Tori likes to write poetry and plans on becoming a poet one day and keeps a journal (which Piper sneaked a peek at in the second book and Sam took to read and accidentally left the journal at the bottom of the stairs, resulting in Mrs. Reed slipping on it and breaking her leg). Tori hates being a part of a Navy family and has a crush on a boy named Ronnie Cartwright.

Sam Reed, The baby of the Reed family, a five-year-old spelling bee prodigy with curly black hair and a love for fish. She also owns a pet goldfish named Peaches the Second (Peaches the First was accidentally killed by Sam, who overfed her, and after Peaches the First was replaced by Peaches the Second, Sam pasted Peaches the First's corpse in her memory box Mrs. Reed had all her daughters make). In the first spelling bee she won, Sam received a plastic tiara for a prize and wanted to wear it everywhere, until the children at her new school in Pensacola made fun of the tiara, and Sam stopped wearing it as often, but had the angel on the Christmas tree that the Reeds had in the spaceship-like beach house they were staying in have a crown instead of a halo. Sam has a doll named Annie, who she cannot sleep without.

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