With the help of his best friend, Eliza, and her wild little brother, Frank, Carlos must uncover a mystery involving an eccentric local millionaire, anonymous death threats, and a buried treasure. But when Carlos's mom gets sick with a flu on the morning of an investigation that could save her failing detective agency, Carlos takes on the case. She is the author of humorous middle grade series: the Case Closed series ( Mystery in the Mansion, Stolen from the Studio, Haunting at the Hotel, and Danger on the Dig) and The Mythics series (Book 1, Marina. You pick the path-you crack the case!Ĭarlos Serrano has never solved a mystery in his life. Case Closed 4 - by Lauren Magaziner 17. Lauren Magaziner grew up in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and is a proud graduate of Hamilton College. In this wildly entertaining and interactive adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the first book in Lauren Magaziner's hilarious and high-stakes four-book middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends put together the clues to save his mom's detective agency.
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It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. He wrote beyond you.” -Ta-Nehisi CoatesĪt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. He did not seem to write to convince you. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. "Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement-and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. “The last couple of Snicket tours that I’ve gone on, I’ve been meeting more and more people in their 20s who grew up on my work. Will the readership for We Are Pirates be those irony savvy kids who grew up reading Lemony Snicket? “I don’t know,” he replies. And there seem to be people who get that. “I think all of my work has a certain tone: it looks askance at the world, it understands that it can be serious and hilarious at the same time. To enjoy it, Handler argues, you’ll need the temperament his son mastered when preverbal. But we’re meeting to talk about his latest foray into grownup fiction, a novel called We Are Pirates. Handler, a 44-year-old San Franciscan, completed the Lemony Snicket books in 2006, and then started a sequence of prequels called All the Wrong Questions, which so far amounts to five novels. I still meet children who, when I make that kind of joke, are alarmed.” Handler affects dismay that such children exist. Or I’d say: ‘If I see a piece of gum on the sidewalk I’m going to fall on the ground,’ and he’d point at the gum. “Before he could talk,” says Handler, “we would go for a walk and I would say: ‘If I see a tree, I’m going to go crazy,’ and he would point at a tree and I would pretend to go crazy. Daniel and Lisa’s nine-year-old son, Otto, perhaps unsurprisingly given his genetic makeup, understood all this very early. No city has had as many Golden Ages as Rome. The decades when it was transformed by Bernini and his contemporaries became at least Rome’s third experience of an astonishing outburst of creativity. In seventeenth-century Rome, designed by far-sighted urban planners in the shape of a star, Bernini and his collaborators and rivals restored a monumental grandeur to the Eternal City that still survives. Enjoying the patronage of Popes and the wealth of the resurgent Counter-Reformation Church, Bernini used his immense talents as an architect, painter, and especially as a sculptor to help define the unique visual style of the Baroque Age. It was also a finalist in the 2022 Audie Awards, and a CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) notable mention for Older Readers Book of the Year. Her newest series, The Prison Healer, won the 2022 ABIA Award for Book of the Year for Older Children (13+), and was shortlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. In 2019, Lynette’s book Whisper won the ABIA Award (Australian Book Industry Award) for Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year, as well as the Gold Inky Award (Australia’s only teen choice book award). She is now a full-time writer and the #1 bestselling author of the six-book young adult fantasy series, The Medoran Chronicles, the award-winning YA duology, Whisper, and the globally renowned YA fantasy trilogy, The Prison Healer. After studying journalism, academic writing and human behaviour at university, Lynette Noni finally ventured into the world of fiction. |