Bibliography: Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan. (2010). Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. IBSN: 978-0375866593 (hc) 978-0375859557 (pb) Plot Summary: On his own in New York for the Christmas holidays, Dash finds a red moleskine notebook in the J.D. Salinger section of the Strand bookstore. The notebook contains a challenge [...]
Bibliography: Moore, Graham. (2010). The Sherlockian. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN: 978-0446572590 Plot Summary: Sherlockian and minor researcher Harold White is thrilled to be inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars. And then a real-life murder mystery worthy of Holmes himself lands in his lap–a prominent Doyle scholar is dead after announcing he has found a [...]
Bibliography: Reinhardt, Dana. (2011). The Summer I Learned to Fly. New York: Random House Children’s Books. ISBN: 978-0385739542 Plot Summary: The summer before eighth grade, and Drew is working in her mother’s cheese shop where she hangs out with surf bum Nick (who she also has a crush on.) When she isn’t working, she plays with [...]
Bibliography: Scott, Michael. (2009). The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Sorceress. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0385735292 (hc) 978-0385735308 (pb) Plot Summary: Leaving a destroyed Paris behind them, Nicholas takes the twins Josh and Sophie (and the pages of the codex) to London, dangerous territory of Dr. John Dee, in hopes of finding Gilgamesh the King [...]
Bibliography: Lawson, Mike. (2006). The Second Perimeter. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 978-0385515320 (hc) 978-1400095162 (pb) Plot Summary: The Secretary of the Navy asks John Mahoney, Speaker of the House, to have his fix it guy, Joe DeMarco, investigate his nephew’s claims that fraud is being committed at a naval base in Bremerton, WA. With the help of [...]
