Sleuth on Skates
A Sesame Seade Mystery #1
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Publisher Description
Unfortunately for aspiring investigator Sesame Seade, becoming a supersleuth isn't easy when you're an eleven-year-old kid and there are no cases in sight. But then, just when she least expects it, a truly strange mystery presents itself in Sesame's quiet hometown of Cambridge, England: university student Jenna Jenkins vanishes without a trace. Aided by her two best friends, a strange duck, and of course her trusty roller skates, the sassy and brilliant Sesame has a good chance of cracking the case . . . as long as she can avoid her meddling mum and dad; her unpleasant teacher Mr. Halitosis; and, scariest of all, the perpetrators of a very serious crime!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Beauvais makes an uproarious U.S. debut with the story of 11-year-old Sophie "Sesame" Seade, who lives at Cambridge University, roller skates everywhere, and has been waiting all her life for a mystery to solve. Finally, one arrives in the form of missing university student Jenna Jenkins, a gossip columnist and ballerina. Sesame, with help from her two best friends, tries to find out who's behind this disappearance, despite interference from her parents (her mother is the head of Christ's College, her father the chaplain). Sesame has a "taste for sophisticated terminology," as she puts it, which makes some hilarious moments as it becomes clear that she doesn't always fully understand what she's saying ("Papa ch ri, fire of my loins, can I go out for a walk?" she asks her father memorably, getting an appropriately horrified reaction). Horne's spot illustrations brim with energy (full of clips, combs, braids, and flyaway curls, Sesame's hair has a life of its own) and can be as edgy as the narration. A bitingly funny kickoff to the Sesame Seade series. Ages 7 11.
