Book 3 (Montmorency And The Assassins)3 reviews
Eleanor Updale

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2007

Brilliant - again!

+ Montmorency & the Assassins

Having read the first two books in this series, I was hungry for more - and Assassins really delivered. When I first picked it up I thought it would be a lot longer than the previous two, but it roars along, with bodies falling, windows smashing and all sorts of other thrilling, funny and sometimes ...
  
  











  



  
Desert Crossing6 reviews
Elise Broach

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2006

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

+ Very Good Book! :)
+ Outstanding YA mystery
+ Gripping mystery
  
  











  



  
The Raven League2 reviews
Bill McCay, Alex Simmons

Razorbill, 2006

Deeply satisfying

+ Mr. Holmes would definitely approve!

I am a serious Sherlockian and very critical of most pastiches and parodies, so I was surprised to enjoy this book so much. The authors have managed to create a Holmes and Watson that do not insult our memories of the original tales at the same time that they evoke a realistic Victorian London. The ...
  
  











  



  
Grand & Humble14 reviews
Brent Hartinger

HarperTeen, 2006

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

+ Nice departure for Hartinger
+ Excellent
+ Grand and Humble Review by Nick
+ Compelling, adventerous, and psychological
  
  











  



  
The Night My Sister Went Missing7 reviews
Carol Plum-Ucci

Harcourt Children's Books, 2006

An intricate mystery filled with shocking surprises and memorable characters

+ Plum-Ucci's Best So Far
+ The Night My Sister Went Missing
+ An enjoyable teen read, but certainly not Plum-Ucci's best
  
  











  



  
Bad Kitty30 reviews
Michele Jaffe

HarperTeen, 2007

Ah-mazing Book! (: READ THIS BOOOK!

+ And Another Book Read Reviews
+ The only laugh-out-loud book I've read in months

This book is absolutely the most amazing, funny, charming, book i have read in a long time. Ms. Jaffe did an excellent job developing her characters in this book! Not only did the plot keep me guessing who did it and why but this book was very humorous! I was litterally laughing my but off every ...
  
  











  



  
Silent Room3 reviews
Walter Sorrells

Dutton Juvenile, 2006

A Book You Won't Be Able To Put Down

+ a must read
+ Holds interest

A few years after Oz's dad dies, his mother finds a new boyfriend who abuses him when she's not around. Oz knew that nothing good could come from him, but he never thought that things would get as bad as they did. When his soon-to-be-stepfather frames Oz and makes up lies about him, Oz's mother ...
  
  











  



  
The Hound of the Baskervilles: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)198 reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Signet Classics, 2001

My Dear Watson

+ One of the All-Time Classics!
+ A Curse on the Aristocracy
+ One of the More Enjoyable Holmes Novels
  
  











  



  
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open9 reviews
John Feinstein

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006

A Readers Review

+ A Fast Paced Sports Mystery
+ A Great Read!
+ Vanishing Act
  
  











  



  
Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox7 reviews
Bennett Madison

Razorbill, 2007

A girl detective who will not only make readers swoon, but keep them reading long into the night!

+ i hope the series will continue!!!
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ Great summer mystery with a Flare!
  
  











  



  
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime58 reviews
Jasper Fforde

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

The Fourth Bear is First Rate

+ miles better than the first book!
+ The NCD is on the case again
+ Great Fun
+ Satire is subtlety, subtlety satire... (from Ode to a Grecian (Demetrios) Ursine)
  
  











  



  
Shock Point11 reviews
April Henry

Putnam Juvenile, 2006

Shock Point

+ Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com
+ MUST READ THRILLER!!
+ EXCITING PAGE-TURNER!
+ Intense YA thriller
  
  











  



  
Road Of The Dead (Push Fiction)13 reviews
Kevin Brooks

Push, 2007

There will be no easy ending here

+ Unexpected Read
+ Wow.

We start out with young Ruben Ford having a psychic experience, learning that somebody has killed his sister Rachel. Then the police show up and inform his mother (Mary) and his brother (Cole), his father is in prison for manslaughter, that his Rachel's body has been found, and it hadn't been an ...
  
  











  



  
The Pluto Project1 review
Melissa Glenn Haber

Dutton Juvenile, 2006

A good book, but it's not what you think

Anyone who buys this book expecting a big kid-sleuth-stumbling-on-murder-conspiracy story is going to be very disappointed. This is a psychological drama about an adolescent dealing with the death of his mother, and though there is an "investigation," it's only a game the kid gets involved in, not ...
  
  











  



  
Chasing the Jaguar (Martika Galvez Mystery)4 reviews
Michele Dominguez Greene

HarperTeen, 2006

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

+ A well-written and entertaining mystery with a bilingual/bicultural heroine
+ A promising start to a new series!

Martika Galvez is just a normal teenage girl. That is, until she turns fifteen and learns that her ancestors were Mayan curanderas and she's following in their footsteps! Her strange dreams apparently mean that she has psychic powers, passed down from her father's side of the family, that her ...
  
  











  



  
Killing a Stranger (Naomi Blake Mysteries)
Jane Adams 194 Aut Aut

Severn House Publishers, 2006

The new Naomi Blake crime novel A teenage boy is found drowned in a canal, just hours after telling his mother that he has killed a man. Rob Beresford was a schoolfriend of Patrick?s; in their shock and grief, Patrick and his mates turn for help to Naomi. The dead man is identified as Adam Hensel: in his mid-forties, from the other side of town. There seems to have been no link between the two, ...
  
  











  



  
Things Hoped For14 reviews
Andrew Clements

Philomel, 2006

Good Story, Nice Character Interactions

+ Things Hoped For
+ Things Hoped For, a review by L K
+ Invisibility Revisited
  
  











  



  
The Rise of Lubchenko1 review
Michael Simmons

Razorbill, 2006

rise of lubchenko

this book was great it had a great ending and this book is diffenitly better than the first one
  
  











  



  
Ghost Soldiers (Invisible Detective)1 review
Justin Richards

Simon & Schuster Children's, 2007

They were some ghostly little soldiers, in the heart of Britannia

Does the name Justin Richards mean anything to you? Yes? No? If not, it's not for the author's lack of trying. Richards has thrown multiple books of varying age and interest across the Atlantic Ocean in the hopes of gaining some kind of a foothold on the American middle reader market. And after ...
  
  











  



  
Snatched (Bloodwater Mysteries)5 reviews
Pete Hautman

Puffin, 2007

A great read for reluctant readers

+ great read for mystery lovers
+ I Really Like This Book!!
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too