Alan Bradley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce had asked a Gypsy woman to tell her fortune-never expecting to later stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned almost to death in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collictt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
It's Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry, is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
Author
Series
Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 1
Thorndike Press large print core
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 01
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 01
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950-and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to...