The graveyard riddle / Lisa Thompson.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First US editionDescription: 291 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781338679038
- 1338679031
- 9781760977375
- 1760977373
- 9780702301582
- 0702301582
- Mystery and detective stories
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Abandoned houses -- Juvenile fiction
- Feral children -- Juvenile fiction
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
- Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction
- Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Dwellings -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | THOMPSON LISA | Available | 33111010550719 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lisa Thompson returns to the world of her acclaimed novel The Goldfish Boy with this page-turning mystery.
Melody Bird has discovered an abandoned old building in the corner of the graveyard...
Though it's dark and creepy, she can't resist its pull. When she goes to explore, she finds a mysterious boy hiding out there. Hal tells Melody that he's a spy, using the house as a base for his undercover surveillance of a nearby suspected criminal. He's very secretive about the details, but Melody comes to trust him and starts helping him with his mission.
Melody is determined to decode the strange riddles Hal finds hidden in the graveyard, but her friends Matthew and Jake question Hal's story. They decide to turn the tables and find out the truth about him , uncovering the biggest mystery of all...
This extraordinary novel set in the world of The Goldfish Boy is a page-turning mystery with a sensitive story about friendship and trust at its core.
Companion to: The goldfish boy.
Ages 8-12. Scholastic Press.
Melody Bird is fascinated by the walled off "plague" house she discovered near the graveyard, but she is even more fascinated by the mysterious boy, Hal, she finds living there in secret; he tells her he is a spy-in-training, a story that Melody's friends Matthew and Jake do not believe, and they set out to find out more--and uncover a riddle even more confusing than Hal's spy story.