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Media - Youth Fiction - Mystery
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The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets.
Nancy Springer (author)Katherine Kellgren (reader) Feb. 2008. 4hr. Recorded Books, CS, $30.75 (9781428182523); CD, $30.75 (9781428182578). Grades 5-9.
REVIEW.
First published May 1, 2008 (Booklist).
Can Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister, Enola, solve a mystery and teach her brother a lesson? Absolutely! Dr. Watson’s disappearance and the arrival of a bouquet of flowers that symbolizes death allow Enola to refine her skills as a “scientific perditorian” (finder of the lost). Information about flowers is among the knowledge stored in Enola’s adolescent brain. Two-time Edgar Award winner Springer’s third Enola Holmes mystery is read by Kellgren in a British accent. She easily switches from upper-crust Victorian girl-power when portraying Enola to reflecting Cockney characters and vicious villains with fluidity. Youngsters puzzled by turn-of-the-century British terminology will construe meaning and receive context clarification through Kellgren’s spot-on inflection of Victorian-era sentence structure. Jolly good!
Mary Burkey
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