The Impossible Clue
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A compelling and funny new whodunit with a strong girl heroine--for fans of Book Scavenger, Greenglass House, and The Mysterious Benedict Society.Math whiz Alice Jones has already cracked a mystery or two. She's smart and she's fearless, so who else would her classmates turn to? But when a famous local scientist vanishes from a locked room, Alice and her detective skills graduate to the big leagues.Dr. Learner had been working on a top-secret invisibility suit that everyone wants. Rumor has it he's disappeared under suspicious circumstances . . . literally. But is wacky science really behind his vanishing? Or is it something more sinister? Alice won't stop until she knows the truth . . .The Impossible Clue is a middle-grade story whose appeal is no mystery, with a protagonist whose charm needs no magnifying glass to detect.
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Everyone in school knows that 12-year-old Alice Jones is the go-to girl for figuring things out, so it isn't a surprise when classmate Sammy asks her to help with a missing-person case. His father runs a science laboratory, Delgado Industries, and the top scientist, who was working on a project involving invisibility, has disappeared. Alice is goaded into taking the case when Sammy's father decides that she will be a good decoy for the press while the "real" detectives search, but as he and others soon learn, underestimating Alice isn't a good idea. Alice evades the goons following her and uses logic to weigh the clues she uncovers as Rubin's (Someday Dancer) mystery winds toward a gratifying conclusion. Though Alice can be prickly, her family, including her journalist father and twin sister, Della, is her soft spot, and Alice's emotional growth as is as satisfying as the mystery she unravels. Observant and persistent, Alice is an easy character to cheer on, and the ethical quandaries that arise lend added depth to her story. Ages 8 12.
