Author: Michael Beil
Publication Date: April 2009
ISBN 13: 978-0375843037
This Red Blazer Girls puzzle mystery is a smart books for lovers of clues, puzzles, adventures, and friends. Using their knowledge of Charles Dickens, math, literature, religion and local lore, this group of friends embarks upon a quest to find the lost ring of St. Veronica, the invaluable Ring of Rocamadour. It's a clever story in the same vein as Chasing Vermeer and it accurately depicts the emotional and social development of middle school girls in their first romantic encounters with boys. The girls' intelligence, advanced knowledge of literature and art, and their self-confidence is somewhat unrealistic, but the reader is brought along nicely through the story by narration that is on level with tweens abilities. And even though they are remarkable competent for 13-year-old girls, they are still capable of giggling, having crushes and feeling insecure. A smart read appropriate for middle schoolers.
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