Author: Daniel Sobol
Lexile measure: 750
Bottom line: These books are about a crime solver, which might bother your child.
Language: Mild name calling.
Violence: There is no violent crime in this book, but there is bullying consisting of locking people up, calling names, and initimidation.
Big Kid Mature Topics: Crime, such as stealing, cheating, faking/forgery. Almost every case involves lying/deception. Bullying/gangs. Big kids picking on little kids.
Illustrations: Black and white shaded drawings, every few pages.
Plot: complex. Each chapter stands alone.
I found this mildly entertaining, but my daughter said that the lying bothered her a lot. I got this because I thought it would engage her sense of deductive reasoning, but I'm not really sure that these short stories really do that. Most of the cases hinge on an obscure fact that you either know, or don't know. But, if you've run out of Nate the Great stories, these are ok, and the vocabulary is definitely more advanced.
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