Snatched- Pete Hautman and Mary Logue
I’m never quite sure how you co-author a novel, but this team seems to have done a fine job. Here is another offering for your mystery lovers; a nice companion for those students who like the Chloe and Levesque novels as well as those featuring Robyn Hunter by Norah McClintock. I really liked the quirkiness of the main character, Roni Delicata. As reporter for the school newspaper, she takes her job very seriously and when Alicia, new girl in town, disappears, she springs into action. Enlisting the help of Brian Bain, whose mother happens to be the town cop, they embark on a number of sometimes risky adventures in order to get to the bottom of this crime. Hautman and Logue do a remarkable job of creating suspense and leading you to believe what appears most likely, and then surprising you with the ending. Altogether, a fine addition to our mystery genre. Snatched is part of The Bloodwater Mysteries series. I would recommend this for grade 6 right through to early high school as the main protagonist is in grade 11.
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