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    The Vanishing Violin
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Vanishing Violin

    Written by Michael D. Beil

    Narrated by Tai Alexandra Ricci

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The perfect series for kids who loved THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more mysteries!

    "With wit, cunning, snappy dialogue and superior math skills, The Red Blazer Girls represent the best of girl-detectives while still feeling relatable and real. Nancy Drew would be right at home with this group." -- Huffington Post's 15 Greatest Kid Detectives List

    When there are mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls' reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths, bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) and some unwanted attention from crooks. This time the girls must follow a trail of cryptic clues, involving everything from logic to literature, to trace a rare violin gone missing. But nothing is as it appears, and just as a solution seems imminent, the girls find themselves scrambling to save the man who was once their prime suspect.

    Bowstrings and betrayal, crushes and codes abound in this suspenseful companion to the Red Blazer Girls' 2009 debut. Michael Beil, a New York City high school English teacher and life-long mystery fan, delivers a middle-grade caper that's perfect for middle-grade readers who have finished THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more advanced mysteries!




    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 10, 2010
    ISBN9780307710536
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    • 3/5
      I started this series with book 2. This is a series where I definitely should have started with book 1. I enjoyed this so much more than book 2. The characters were more interesting and so was the mystery. I liked the ending better, as well. It wasn't the most spectacular young adult mystery I've ever read, but it was really enjoyable. I might go back and reread book 2 to see if I like it more now that I've read book one.
    • 2/5
      Sophie see's a woman in a window at school and drags two of her friends. The women needs help solving a twenty year old mystery that may reunite her with her estranged daughter. In addition to the mystery there are boy problems, a Great Expectations skit and an evil deacon.

      This was a cute little mystery. There wasn't anything super exciting about it. If you think about it enough a couple chapters in and you can figure out who dunnit. The girls are sweet and likable as are many of the other characters (except the bad guy of course.)

      My one complaint is that there was math. The girls need to solve a series of puzzles and the whole thing leads to some plane geometry. Oh there were vicious vicious flashbacks. I was not happy.

      There is also a slightly religious aspect to the entire thing, however it's mostly from a historical perspective and no one's being beat over the head with anything. All of the parts discussed end up being relevent to the story.
    • 3/5
      Cute middle grade mystery. I like that they let you work with them to solve the mysteries although I did glaze over the math parts.
    • 3/5
      This is the first book in the RBG series. Here the Red Blazer Girls (Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, Leigh Ann) try to find the priceless Ring of Rocamadour by solving academic puzzles and with the help of a few friends. The narrator is Sophie, who was pretty realistic but a little too smug and cutesy for me. However she no longer annoys me as much by the end of the book. The math/puzzle explanations were lecture-like so I just skimmed through those parts. I loved that the characters were well-rounded smart girls who lead interesting but balanced lives. I probably would have adored this book if I had read it when I was in the characters' age group (7th grade). As an adult I found it enjoyable despite a couple of boring math paragraphs. Near the end there is a scene about Margaret which was particularly touching. I am looking forward to reading the 2nd book in this series.
    • 4/5
      What a smart mystery! Four girls put their heads together to solve a twenty-year-old mystery with elements of classic literature, math, and art. A great way to reignite passions for mysteries in children's literature.
    • 3/5
      The Red Blazer Girls:The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil (Children’s Fiction) If you liked Nancy Drew books you’ll love these Red Blazer series. In the first book, ‘The Ring of Rocamadour’, Sophie sees a ghost at a window in the church beside the school. When she and her friends, Margaret and Rebecca, investigate they don’t find a ghost, but an old lady with a mystery for them to solve – but will it lead to treasure or into danger?
    • 4/5
      Book talk: The mystery really starts with Sophie screaming in her seventh grade English class, and that was page one. Yes, the mystery really does get off to a great start that quickly. Sophie and her friends are not your ordinary seventh grade girls. They go to a private Catholic girls' school in New York City on the upper east side of Manhattan. These girls may all dress alike in their uniforms with the red blazers, but each brings something unique to the story. Margaret is über-brainy, and Rebecca is pretty quick with the wisecracks. Then there is the new girl, Leigh Ann. She's perfect, in every way, and she's probably after Raf, the guy that Sophie has known, like, forever, but whom she now seems to like in a different way . . . though she won't admit it. Then there is the mystery to solve, complete with a scavenger hunt that takes them all around the church in places they aren't supposed to be. You see, that scream led to Sophie meeting a wealthy, elderly lady trying to solve a 20-year-old puzzle. But there are other not-so-trustworthy people also trying to solve the puzzle. The Ring of Rocamadour is priceless; it's part of a pair of rings said to be a gift to a young couple centuries ago. In fact, the young couple's rings touched the famous veil used to wipe the face of Christ. the rings were passed down through the centuries, and those who wear the rings, it is said, are visited in their dreams by St. Veronica, who answers their prayers. The groom's ring was found in the ruins of a twelfth-century chapel near Rocamadour, France, and was donated to a museum. Sophie and her pals are looking for the missing Bride's ring. Could it be buried in the church? Could the clues really be from a long-lost birthday card? Read The Red Blazer Girls book one, and whatever you do, don't miss the catchy chapter titles. (They were some of my favorite parts of the book!)
    • 4/5
       In this book Sophie,Rebecca and Margaret meet Ms. Harriman who has a puzzle she can't solve. But not a jigsaw puzzle a word and adventure mystery puzzle... Read this to know what happens.
    • 4/5
      This is a really good book – really perfect for young teens who don’t want too much sex or drugs or drinking. In fact there is none of that in this book. Sophie and her three friends get involved in a mystery that is a puzzle. They meet an older woman who lives next door to their Catholic school, and she tells them about a mystery that was intended for her daughter when she turned 16. Unfortunately, she is estranged from her daughter now, and wants to be able to solve the puzzle and give the treasure to her daughter. There is lots of intrigue, along with the physical work of solving the puzzle. There is a little romance, but not much, and the girls choose to be friends over everything else in their lives. School fits into this story very well, as the girls enlist a teacher to help them over some of the hurdles., but their parents are all fairly absent from the plot. These are New York City girls, so they are pretty independent. But all in all, a great book with a lot to think about.
    • 4/5
      This is a really good book – really perfect for young teens who don’t want too much sex or drugs or drinking. In fact there is none of that in this book. Sophie and her three friends get involved in a mystery that is a puzzle. They meet an older woman who lives next door to their Catholic school, and she tells them about a mystery that was intended for her daughter when she turned 16. Unfortunately, she is estranged from her daughter now, and wants to be able to solve the puzzle and give the treasure to her daughter. There is lots of intrigue, along with the physical work of solving the puzzle. There is a little romance, but not much, and the girls choose to be friends over everything else in their lives. School fits into this story very well, as the girls enlist a teacher to help them over some of the hurdles., but their parents are all fairly absent from the plot. These are New York City girls, so they are pretty independent. But all in all, a great book with a lot to think about.