Synopsis
Laurel Hollows's most undercover sleuth is back on the trail of an exciting new mystery! Will Alec Flint be able to crack the case of the missing something?
Alec Flint is a super sleuth in training, with one mystery under his belt, and a really great partner named Gina. When Gina's mom, a local newspaper reporter, gets a ransom note at work, Alec and Gina are on the case. The note claims that something belonging to the whole town has been stolen . . . but that something could be anything!
The partners do their best to spend as much time as possible sleuthing, but their schoolwork keeps getting in the way. The entire fourth grade is doing a unit on the abstract artist Jackson Pollock that's sponsored by a distant relative of Pollock's.
Alec Flint is a super sleuth in training, with one mystery under his belt, and a really great partner named Gina. When Gina's mom, a local newspaper reporter, gets a ransom note at work, Alec and Gina are on the case. The note claims that something belonging to the whole town has been stolen . . . but that something could be anything!
The partners do their best to spend as much time as possible sleuthing, but their schoolwork keeps getting in the way. The entire fourth grade is doing a unit on the abstract artist Jackson Pollock that's sponsored by a distant relative of Pollock's.
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About the Author
JILL SANTOPOLO is not a supersleuth-in-training, though she does know how to open locked doors with
her MetroCard. She lives in New York City and is currently pursuing her MFA in Writing for Children and
Young Adults at Vermont College. Her second book, An Alec Flint Mystery: The Ransom Note Blues, is also
being published by Orchard Books. When she's not writing, Jill edits children's books for a major publishing
house.
Reviews
Grade 3–5—Readers of Donald Sobol's "Encyclopedia Brown" (Puffin), David Adler's "Cam Jansen" (Viking), and Ron Roy's "A to Z Mysteries" (Random) will have something to cheer about with this series. Alec's father is a small-town chief of police, and Alec and his sidekick, Gina, are masters at observing the world around them and spend as much time practicing their sleuthing skills as they do on their schoolwork. They also enjoy communicating with one another in codes and a form of silent talking that they call "no noise" speech. Here, the fourth graders take on an art mystery while studying Abstract Expressionism and the style of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Their world, families, and friendships are reassuring and easy. The tale is 12 chapters long, which will allow confident readers a chance to enjoy a more extensive story without having to deal with content that may be above their maturity level.—Kathleen Meulen, Sakai Intermediate School, Bainbridge Island, WA END
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