Synopses & Reviews
In this fourth clever chapter book starring Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey, real science is seamlessly woven into four exciting cases, including a mysterious food-poisoning epidemic and a spooky tree-house ghost. The snappy dialogue and wacky scenarios are perfect for middle-graders, who will enjoy discovering the appendix of science activities, which focus on such concepts as epidemiology, code breaking, phases of matter, and simple machines. Each corresponds to a case in the book and will have readers scrambling for their own lab notebooks and detective gear! Michele Torrey and Barbara Johansen Newman teamed up on three other titles in the Doyle and Fossey series, including The Case of the Graveyard Ghost, about which School Library Journal raved, "Early chapter-book readers will be enchanted with the deductive skills and humor of Doyle and Fossey, whose adventures will remind readers of Cam Jansen and Einstein Anderson." Michele Torrey lives in Auburn, Washington. Barbara Johansen Newman lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
Synopsis
In this clever chapter book, the first in a new series, real science is seamlessly woven into four separate mysteries solved by Science Detectives Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey. No case is too big or too small for this dynamic duo, who never miss an opportunity to decipher anonymous love notes or unveil the true identity of garbage-can monsters.
The snappy, funny dialogue and wacky scenarios are perfect for middle-graders, who will enjoy discovering the four science experiments at the back of the book. Each one corresponds to a case that Doyle and Fossey have solved-and will have readers scrambling for their own magnifying glasses and invisible ink!