Fairday Morrow and the Talking Library
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
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Eleven-year-old Fairday Morrow had no clue that moving from Manhattan to the small town of Ashpot, Connecticut would lead to an unsolved mystery. Her parents’ dream of renovating a crumbling Victorian called the Begonia House into a bed and breakfast had seemed like treachery at the time, but Fairday found out that her new house kept secrets, and once inside its twisted front gates, anything was possible.
When mysterious notes start showing up warning that a librarian is in trouble and a bookworm is eating words, Fairday thinks the Begonia House has more skeletons in its closets. She notices a passage in her favorite book has been changed, and she’s certain something is dreadfully wrong. What happens to stories when their words get eaten?
The Detective Mystery Squad is ready to investigate! Fairday, Lizzy, and Marcus take off on a sticky trail and tumble into Nowhere. Like Alice in Wonderland, Fairday finds herself in a world where nothing makes sense and the lines of reality are blurred.
The three sleuths discover amazing things about themselves as they unravel more secrets within the walls of the Begonia House. Follow along with Fairday and friends as they open the next case in the DMS files to unlock the Talking Library.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Haight and Robinson follow The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow with this delightful mystery that sets the Detective Mystery Squad on the trail of a threat to stories everywhere. Fifth grader Fairday Morrow has recently moved into Begonia House, a "crumbling Victorian" in Connecticut, from Manhattan, where she and her friends Lizzy Mackerville and Marcus Brocket solved more than one case. As Fairday's parents struggle to repair the house, riddles lead the children to the Talking Library home to chatting tomes and all first editions located in a parallel world accessible from Begonia House. The Librarian, Fas, explains that a bookworm is loose, "changing stories and destroying the books' lives," and that its feasting could destroy all stories, everywhere. To contact the Myxtress Eldrich, who can defeat the bookworm, the trio must solve more clues and riddles. Along the way, they receive assistance from a retired investigative journalist and must avoid a snooping reporter. This fine combination of clever kids, arcane mysteries, and witty conundrums falls nicely in-line with other novels featuring riddle-solving kids and literary and linguistic references. Ages 8 12. (BookLife)
