Alan Bradley
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed...
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether...
From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
2011 Bantam Books trade pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
383 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite thinking that her role as an amateur sleuth is over, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is pulled into another mystery when a well-known puppeteer is murdered. As she investigates, she uncovers evidence linking the case to a murder from years ago that seemed to by unsolvable.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
331 p.
Language
English
Description
"Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in the much anticipated new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her...
Author
Series
Flavia de Luce volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, which has sharpened her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is...