This lightweight whodunit stays puzzling through trickery. Brian Bain just wants to stay out of trouble for a little while, for since his last adventure in the chemistry lab he's been grounded. However, when a fellow student is kidnapped, Brian teams up with student journalist Roni to solve the mystery. Alicia, the kidnapped girl, was the victim of a brutal mugging the week before-could her disappearance be connected to the beating? Brian and Roni investigate ex-boyfriends, absent-minded adults and an island full of frightening but entertaining squatters. A reader who can see through the mystery's misdirection might solve the puzzle before Brian and Roni. A frustratingly casual treatment of child abuse mars this venture, however; a woman who's known to be responsible for a child's vicious beating strikes that child in front of the police and is not immediately restrained or ever arrested. If the story contained any condemnation of this behavior, perhaps it wouldn't be so jarring, but the characters seem more willing to condemn potential male abusers than actual female ones. (Fiction. 10-12)
Roni Delicata is the pushy crime reporter for the school newspaper*The Bloodwater Pump. Brian Bain is a quiet science geek who has a tendency to blow things up.
Ordinarily, Roni and Brian would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn't an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been snatched.
Soon enough, Roni and Brian are on the case. But as they dig deeper into the mystery, they find nothing but suspects: Alicia's hothead boyfriend Maurice, her creepy stepfather, and even Driftwood Doug, the hobo who always seemed to be watching Alicia from the woods. It's up to Roni and Brian to find Alicia and reveal the shocking secret that led to her disappearance.
An eerie mystery that never loses its sense of humor,*Snatched*marks the beginning of a great new series set in the small town of Bloodwater, featuring two offbeat detectives you'll be thrilled to meet.
The first book in the Edgar-nominated Bloodwater Mysteries series by Pete Hautman!
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Ordinarily, Roni and Brian would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn't an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been snatched.
Soon enough, Roni and Brian are on the case. But as they dig deeper into the mystery, they find nothing but suspects: Alicia's hothead boyfriend Maurice, her creepy stepfather, and even Driftwood Doug, the hobo who always seemed to be watching Alicia from the woods. It's up to Roni and Brian to find Alicia and reveal the shocking secret that led to her disappearance.
An eerie mystery that never loses its sense of humor,*Snatched*marks the beginning of a great new series set in the small town of Bloodwater, featuring two offbeat detectives you'll be thrilled to meet.
The first book in the Edgar-nominated Bloodwater Mysteries series by Pete Hautman!
Snatched
Roni Delicata is the pushy crime reporter for the school newspaper*The Bloodwater Pump. Brian Bain is a quiet science geek who has a tendency to blow things up.
Ordinarily, Roni and Brian would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn't an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been snatched.
Soon enough, Roni and Brian are on the case. But as they dig deeper into the mystery, they find nothing but suspects: Alicia's hothead boyfriend Maurice, her creepy stepfather, and even Driftwood Doug, the hobo who always seemed to be watching Alicia from the woods. It's up to Roni and Brian to find Alicia and reveal the shocking secret that led to her disappearance.
An eerie mystery that never loses its sense of humor,*Snatched*marks the beginning of a great new series set in the small town of Bloodwater, featuring two offbeat detectives you'll be thrilled to meet.
The first book in the Edgar-nominated Bloodwater Mysteries series by Pete Hautman!
Ordinarily, Roni and Brian would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn't an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been snatched.
Soon enough, Roni and Brian are on the case. But as they dig deeper into the mystery, they find nothing but suspects: Alicia's hothead boyfriend Maurice, her creepy stepfather, and even Driftwood Doug, the hobo who always seemed to be watching Alicia from the woods. It's up to Roni and Brian to find Alicia and reveal the shocking secret that led to her disappearance.
An eerie mystery that never loses its sense of humor,*Snatched*marks the beginning of a great new series set in the small town of Bloodwater, featuring two offbeat detectives you'll be thrilled to meet.
The first book in the Edgar-nominated Bloodwater Mysteries series by Pete Hautman!
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940169094046 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 11/20/2018 |
| Series: | The Bloodwater Mysteries , #1 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Age Range: | 8 - 11 Years |
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