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The Red Blazer Girls

The Ring of Rocamadour

#1 in series

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1 of 2 copies available
1 of 2 copies available
The perfect series for kids who loved THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more mysteries!
Edgar Award Nominee for Best Mystery!
"With wit, cunning, snappy dialogue and superior math skills, The Red Blazer Girls represent the best of girl-detectives while still feeling relatable and real. Nancy Drew would be right at home with this group." — Huffington Post's 15 Greatest Kid Detectives List
It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldn’t be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met, in search of a legendary ring reputed to grant wishes. Are these sleuths in school uniforms modern-day equivalents of Nancy, Harriet, or Scooby? Not really, they’re just three nice girls who decide to help out a weird lady, and end up hiding under tables, tackling word puzzles and geometry equations, and searching rather moldy storage rooms for “the stuff that dreams are made of” (that’s from an old detective movie). Oh, and there’s A Boy, who complicates things. As boys often do.
Intrigued? The Red Blazer Girls offers a fun, twisty adventure for those who love mystery, math (c’mon, admit it!), and a modest measure of mayhem.
Michael Beil, a New York City high school English teacher and life-long mystery fan, delivers a middle-grade caper that's perfect for middle-grade readers who have finished THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more advanced mysteries!
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    • School Library Journal

      June 1, 2009
      Gr 5-8-Melodramatic Sophia St. Pierre, über-brainy Margaret Wrobel, and wisecracking Rebecca Chen are seventh graders at a Manhattan Catholic school. While sitting in her English class, Sophie spies someone in a window of the church next door, and she seems to be asking for help. The woman turns out to be a wealthy, elderly hippie who is trying to solve a 20-year-old puzzle. From that moment, these friends are embroiled in a mystery to find an ancient artifact, return it to its proper owner, and bring the villain to justice. The bright main characters have distinctive voices and unique personalities. Sophie is a witty narrator, whose asides, while sometimes distracting, are often as amusing as the long chapter titles. Along with sleuthing in the church, the girls are dealing with family and friend issues and first loves and preparing a Dickensian school skit. They get caught up in the engaging mystery, temporarily fall prey to misconceptions/misunderstandings, and proudly work out the teasing clues to find the treasure. This is a PG "Da Vinci Code" (Doubleday, 2003) clearly authored by a teacher (plenty of literary name-dropping) with a neat ending that is not immediately predictable. It's a clever way to combine some middle school math (graphs and grids included) with a fun mystery, great friends, and a bit of romance."Danielle Serra, Cliffside Park Public Library, NJ"

      Copyright 2009 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      Starred review from January 1, 2009
      Grades 5-8 *Starred Review* A familiar heroinethe girl detectivegets a fresh look (red blazer!) in this delightful debut. Narrator Sophie and her pals Margaret and Rebeccago St. Veronicas, onthe Upper East Side, where, one afternoonin English class, Sophie screams.She has seen a ghostly face in the church window across the courtyard. The woman is real and needs help. She is estranged from her daughter but has foundsomething that could bring them together: a card, the first in aseriesthat leads to a scavenger hunt wrapped in clues about religion, literature, and math, with a museum-quality treasure at its end. Beil, an English teacher, does a lot of juggling here. Besides the mystery, theres Sophiesincipient relationship with a boy friend who is morphing into a boyfriend, as well as herpals family problems.The girlshave to make sure others with more nefarious motives dont find the treasure before they do. The dialogue is fastand funny, the clues areoften solvable (except, oy, the math), and even though a bunch of the adult characters are stereotypes, they work in thecontext of the mystery. More Red Blazer Girls, please.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2009
      A twenty-year-old birthday card leads seventh grader Sophie St. Pierre and her friends on a hunt for puzzles hidden in the church next to their all-girls' parochial school. As the sleuths solve each puzzle (tied to math, literature, or religion), they close in on a legendary ruby ring. Beil mixes light romance, family issues, and Great Expectations into this engaging mystery.

      (Copyright 2009 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:4.4
  • Lexile® Measure:720
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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