num_pages: 304
description: The perfect series for kids who loved THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more mysteries!Edgar Award Nominee for Best Mystery!With wit cunning snappy dialogue and superior math skills The Red Blazer Girls represent the best of girl-detectives while still feeling relatable and real. Nancy Drew would be right at home with this group. -- Huffington Post 's 15 Greatest Kid Detectives ListIt all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well if we told you that it wouldnt be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending three friends find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met in search of a legendary ring reputed to grant wishes. Are these sleuths in school uniforms modern-day equivalents of Nancy Harriet or Scooby? Not really theyre just three nice girls who decide to help out a weird lady and end up hiding under tables tackling word puzzles and geometry equations and searching rather moldy storage rooms for the stuff that dreams are made of (thats from an old detective movie). Oh and theres A Boy who complicates things. As boys often do.Intrigued? The Red Blazer Girls offers a fun twisty adventure for those who love mystery math (cmon admit it!) and a modest measure of mayhem.Michael Beil a New York City high school English teacher and life-long mystery fan delivers a middle-grade caper that's perfect for middle-grade readers who have finished THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more advanced mysteries!
language: English
title: The Ring of Rocamadour
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf