Mystery at Blue Ridge Cemetery (Spotlight Club Mysteries) - Hardcover

Heide, Florence Parry; Pierce, Roxanne Heide

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807576956 ISBN 13: 9780807576953

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2013

Synopsis

The Spotlight Clubbers create stone rubbings of Civil War-era tombstones for a summer school class on the Civil War. Cindy has chosen the tombstone of Serafina Winslow, who died in 1862. Then, at the neighborhood yard sale, Cindy locates a box of interesting-looking old photos and frames and miscellaneous papers. When she takes it home with her, she discovers Serafina Winslow's journal inside! Things get even more mysterious when Cindy finds a sketch of her neighbor's missing locket in the journal. What does the long-deceased Serafina Winslow have to do with the recent disappearance of the locket? Leave it to the Spotlight Club to dig up the answers!

About this title

About the Authors

Florence Parry Heide worked in advertising and public relations, but is best known for her many award-winning and best-selling books for children, including The Spotlight Club series and Some Things Are Scary. Florence Parry Heide passed away in 2011.

Roxanne Heide Pierce co-authored many books with her mother, Florence Parry Heide, including The Spotlight Club series and Always Listen to Your Mother. She passed away in 2012.

Sophie Escabasse has worked on diverse projects, mainly as an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator. She lives in France.

From the Back Cover

What does the long-deceased Serafina Winslow have to do with the disappearance of a valuable locket? Leave it to the Spotlight Club to dig up the answers!

Reviews

In this posthumously released Spotlight Club Mystery, Cindy, Jay, and Dexter come across the Civil War diary of Serafina Winslow, daughter of sculptor and artist Will Winslow. They also meet estranged sisters Carmen and Claudia and briefly spy a locket, which the diary claims is the key to a treasure. The hunt for the locket and the discovery of its secrets lead this trio into Blue Ridge Cemetery, the location of Serafina’s grave and many of Winslow’s sculptures. The Heides (mother and daughter) offer beginning chapter-book readers a solid mystery filled with suspects, clues, possible ghosts, red herrings, and commentary about the detective process. Escabasse’s black-and-white artwork gives the story a contemporary feel, despite certain plot points (kids making friends with strangers in a cemetery) that mark this as a story from a more innocent time. This should be popular with graduates of David A. Adler’s Cam Jansen series. Another Spotlight Club Mysteries title, Mystery of the Bewitched Bookmobile (originally published in 1975), newly illustrated by Escabasse, is being reissued. Grades 2-5. --Kay Weisman

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807576956
• ISBN 13: 9780807576953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Escabasse Sophie
• Number of pages: 128