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Walls Within Walls (2010)

by Maureen Sherry(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

006176700X (ISBN13: 9780061767005)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Katherine Tegen Books

review 1: I think this is an excellent book for 4th-6th graders who love mystery and historical fiction. My 6th grade daughter and I read this together and she loved it! We live close to New York City (she's a "City kid"), and she especially loved learning more about the city she knows and loves so well. She even wants to take a Wall Within Walls tour the next time we go in. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because my daughter almost didn't read this book with me; she felt the illustrations were too juvenile--"babyish," she called them. I feel the narrative and illustrations are out of whack. In other words, the illustrations, while nice, were geared to 2nd/3rd graders, while the story itself is a bit more sophisticated than that.
review 2: • First in a se... moreries.• Smithfork children living in an old NYC mansion converted into apartments, try to solve the mystery of a missing fortune from the 1930’s. With the help of an elderly daughter of the original mansion owners, they travel around NYC based on clues.• A lot of historical facts, along with some fiction. • The 6 year-old boy (1st grade?) acts way beyond his yers and the mansion owner’s daughter who is well into her 80’s, acts considerably younger. • Other than some impossible scenerios, it was an amusing story. less

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