Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Two Spies

I'm going to round up from 3.5 this time.

It's modern enough to have a laser printer. Three of the cases are actually police matters instead of just kid stuff. Most are actually solvable by an ordinary person.

(Yes, Tessie is a large girl, but she's described insultingly because she's not a nice or honorable girl.)

Btw, I sure do admire Bugs Meany's persistence... he tries at least once in every book to get our hero in trouble. But why do the cops keep buying his story, when EB keeps showing the stories as lies?

Like other Encyclopedia Brown books, this is a compilation of short mysteries, in which kid detective Leroy Brown sets out to solve minor problems in the neighborhood. At the end of each case, the book gives the reader a chance to figure out the answer. This is a great series which will make children think critically and analytically about each individual story. Some of the answers do seem far fetched in the sense that it does not always have to follow the route, but often do make sense. This would mean it may be hard to guess the answer, even though the answer is a plausible solution. I would highly recommend this book for an elementary school or home collection, but I think it will span a wider age group than you believe. I recommend show more this book for children ages 9 - 13. show less

The young sneaker-clad super sleuth saves the day again in a collection of ten short mysteries that invite readers to puzzle out the solutions before consulting the answers in the back of the book.

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