I think this one might be the best of the series.

Not really into those patriotic and religious preaching, but again I shouldn't be so picky since the series was written decades ago. What really shines here is the sibling love and family connection that can only be found in the "Good Old Days."

Dig audio - cute story

More engaging than the previous three books in the series. It’s fun to see the girls growing up and tackling more individually.

Always going to be a 5 star read for me! I just love this series about the sweetest family!

Here are more adventures of the All of Kind Family. The children are growing up and now it is World War One. Ella's boyfriend, Jules goes off to War and the family does all they can to support the war effort. All in all they are a happy, lively family with lovely Jewish traditions.

This was the best one yet

This continues the charming story of the 5 sisters.

From the hilarious opening chapter to the triumphant final one, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown draws the reader in, involving her once again in the lives of the eponymous All-of-a-Kind Family (surname: unknown). Having now moved to the leafier Bronx, the family are just beginning to find their way around, and the girls set out at the beginning of the book, together with little Charlie, to visit their Aunt Lena in her apartment, a few blocks away. Being unfamiliar with the way floors are reckoned in this new place, they make a mistake, one that is at first embarrassing, but that also leads to laughter, and to the making of a new friend. No sooner is this adventure over, than a more serious one arises: Mama must be taken to the hospital, in order to have her appendix out, and the girls (Ella in charge) must cope with running a house on their own. Ella's beau Jules, introduced in n  More All-of-a-Kind Familyn, returns here, and enlists in the US Army, shipping off to Europe to fight in World War I. Jewish holidays and customs - keeping the Sabbath, the P'Idyon Ha-Ben ceremony - still play a central role in the girls' lives, but their horizons expand in this new home, and they have new Christian friends, in the form of the Irish-American Healy family, who live downstairs from them. The book closes with the return of the soldiers from World War I, and their triumphant march through New York City...

Although there seems to be some disagreement, regarding the correct order of Sydney Taylor's series, given that the fourth book to be published, n  All-of-a-Kind Family Downtownn, chronicles events occurring between n  All-of-a-Kind Familyn and n  More All-of-a-Kind Familyn, I have always considered this book, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, to be the third one in the series, rather than the fourth. Leaving that issue aside, this is one that is every bit as delightful as its predecessors, with a story that swings effortlessly from hilarity to pathos, chronicling the ups and downs in the life of one Jewish family, residing in New York City in the early years of the twentieth century. It was interesting to see the girls getting older, with Ella's romance becoming more serious, and Sarah struggling so to win her history prize. As a young girl, I found the romances between Ella and Jules, and Grace Healy and Bill, very compelling stuff, and I cannot read the chapter where the four young people ride around New York City on a double-decker bus, singing songs that eventually involve all the riders in an impromptu concert, without smiling in delight. Similarly, I cannot read the scene in which Ella and Jules are parted, or the one in which Bill is declared missing in action, without getting a shiver. Taylor has a light touch here, and one never feels overwhelmed with despair, but she definitely is as capable of evoking sadness and fear in her readers, as she is good humor and happiness. Highly, highly recommended, to all those readers that have read the earlier two stories about this family, with the further recommendation that, if you are not one of those readers... what are you waiting for?!?

This is my favorite of the series. Ive remembered the chapter where Henny dyes her sister’s dress with tea to cover the stain ever since I read this as a kid, very fun to reread as an adult!

rereading as an adult
REad the whole series as a kid many times one of my favorite series. I began reading them in grammar school as they wee a popular series, and I wanted to learn more about the Jewish faith as many of my classmates and friends were Jewish. I loved that there were 5 sisters, having only one myself. They were their own best friends, and they had loving parents. And close extended family members. Neighbors were like family as well.

I liked this one too. Not as much as the other two. The kids are older in this one and although I am curious to know how they “turn out,” it’s missing some of the charm of the first two I read.