Don’t know what to get an almost-teen girly girl?...a girl who rolls her eyes at all things Middle Earth/Hogwarts?...a girl who is just venturing into the world of messy emotions, boys and malls (…and not in that particular order)?
Chuck her a copy of 'I So Don’t Do Mysteries' and she won’t hate you too much.
Sherlock ‘Sherry’ Holmes Baldwin has a lot on her plate. Her widowed dad is getting married to her Maths Teacher (no less!), her l'il brother is being a pain as only l'il brothers can be, the boy she’s crushing on appears to be sending out similar vibes and her real mom, a Phoenix Police Department cop who was killed in the line of duty is now back as an invisible ghost asking Sherry for assistance.
Turns out Sherry’s mom didn’t go off into the big doughnut in the sky. She chose to stay on in the Academy of Spirits, an organization which trains ghosts to protect the living. Unless Sherry’s mom solves the mystery entrusted in her care, she will have to move-on.
Despite her name, Sherry is not big on the whole sleuthing gig. But the alternative means never hearing from her mum again. So the digging-her-heels-in-the-sand Sherry is soon off to San Diego to save a bunch of rhinos from a ploy to take them out.
The book is frothy, filled with a few interesting ideas and a bunch of adorable(seriously, that’s the only word I could think of) comparisons like:
a.A full moon has risen, a sugar cookie in the night sky
b. Miles off in the distance , green hills are dotted with rocks that look like huge Pippi Longstocking freckles
……you get the idea...
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