Quick read with good local DC flavor. Basically lightweight, but with charm.

An enjoyable story.

The book was super because August (the little boy aged 10) met 7 kids who were invisible. His favorites were April and Mike. They liked going to the park together. One day he went back in time to 1939! Pineapple Place had a big party. August gave a lot of precious things to his friends, even his roller skates and baseball mitt. The people of Pineapple Place left for Chicago. There they met Zachary, August's friend.

Suddenly was reminded of enjoying this book as a child, and picked it up at the library on a whim. A boy failing to cope with his parents' divorce or his recent move makes a new friend, only to discover that to most people her street and its inhabitants are invisible. Pineapple Place has been disappearing and reappearing in different neighborhoods since World War One, and the people in it have remained the same age. Only occasionally can someone see one of them, and the idea of a person's charac...

As a young girl this was the book that started it all....

My imagination flourished and the journey with the characters began. It was this book that I realized how one can make a character so real. You share their laughter, their joy and their pain. Their friends are your friends and you see them as if they are standing right beside you.

Very cute little imaginative book about a young man trying to settle into a new world in Washington DC after his parents divorce. He makes some friends who prove quite helpful in getting him to enjoy his new surroundings -- children and adults displaced in time, living on Pineapple Place circa 1939. I found the story endearing and the glimpses of the city a lot of fun. The next time I am bumped on the street by an invisible person, I will suspect one of the O'Malley children. Originally I was th...

The Washington Post recommended this book since it mentions a number of locations in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. I was interested because the places mentioned are all within about 7 miles from my house.It turned out to be a delightful book and we are currently enjoying the next book in the series. Pineapple Place is an imaginary street full of people and their houses, frozen in time and mostly invisible--except to some few lucky people, August (a boy) being one of the lucky few. The little comm...

Cute, fairly gentle story, interesting variation on the time-slip idea. Think I may have read this one as a kid.

Given to me from my Grandma as a gift when I was a child it took me a couple reads to get through it (I didn't much care for fantasy novels as a child.... yeah weird for a kid I know). Read it when I was a teen and again this year after reading the Harry Potter series. I felt that if you like Harry Potter you would enjoy this novel. Although the people are not witches and wizards per se there are still many similarities in the ideas contained within. I think it's a wonderful children's novel tha...

Every now and then I discover a fantastic book that I know I'll love forever. I found one today. It's called The People in Pineapple Place and was written by Anne Spencer Lindbergh (the daughter of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh). It was originally published in 1982.It's a fantasy set in Washington D.C. about a street of people that are only visible to newcomer August Brown. August gets frustrated that no one else can see the wonderful world he's found (wouldn't you?) but he has gre...