The Boy Sherlock Holmes (5 books in series)
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review 1: "Becoming Holmes" by Shane Peacock is a good book to recommend to middle school students who likes Sherlock Holmes because this book is a detective story about Sherlock Holmes and his enemies. This book has easy vocabulary, suspense and a very mysterious story. This book was very...
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review 1: This is the 4th book in a series about the young Sherlock Holmes. Spring Heeled Jack, a character out of old penny dreadfuls, seems to have come alive and is rampaging around London, scaring young women. Sherlock's friend Beatrice has asked him to help. It's a good story, but i...
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review 1: Teenage orphan Sherlock Holmes wants nothing more than to be recognized for his genius in solving two major crimes, but Lestrade and the teenage criminal Malefactor made sure that he not only got no credit, he's also more alone than ever before. When a major kidnapping occurs, Ho...
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review 1: This book just didn't deliver for me, although it had a couple exciting scenes. I really enjoyed the other books in the series but this one seemed confused--or at least, I was confused reading it. It was nice to see Sherlock again, but he seemed to make obvious mistakes, and I di...
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review 1: Better than the other one but oh so bleak. Not that that's a bad thing, we see Sherlock developing into the person who doesn't want the fame so much as justice. But this stupid nonsense with Irene - I'm really banking on her being Irene Adler - is getting tiresome. I get it wh...