The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger: New for 2022, a mystery-filled detective story for children, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens!: Book 1

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Lizzie and Belle are both sensible, likable characters and the secondary characters are all believable. I can’t be the only one who’s been yearning for something to fill the Murder Most Unladylike/Sinclair Mysteries hole in my reading heart since those series came to an end, so I know I won’t be the only one latching. Even as an adult I do love a mystery/crime middle-grade novel and I cannot wait to see what adventures and mystery solving both Lizzie and Belle get up to next. I was hooked from the outset as Williams expertly takes the real life historical figures of two black Georgians Lizzie Sancho and Dido Belle and imagines them tackling a mystery of an attempted onstage murder! It was a look at history through the eyes of young ladies who were close to my own age and thus grew my love of historical fiction.

This is told at pace and the reader is totally caught up in the story, told sometimes in letters, with occasional notes as to where the two are in their deductions.We would recommend using the book Black and British: An Illustrated History by David Olusoga alongside this text. This is a four-week Writing Root based around the book The Lizzie and Bell Mysteries: Drama and Danger by J. It also emphasises rights for Black people, so I think it will be a good story to be shared during Black History Month. They went to Garrick, who was the Director of the play: he felt the dropping of the chandelier was an accident and the show should go on. Set in 1700s London, Lizzie and Belle meet unexpectedly but find they both have inquisitive minds and love solving mysteries so when Lizzie's Dad (the first black man to take to the stage in Othello) narrowly survives an attempt on his life, the girls are determined to investigate, despite all of the ways society and other people try to stop them.

After completing the book, I felt as if I wanted to know more because the book was left on a cliff-hanger which was, in my opinion, crucial to the story. The second book in the thrilling middle grade mystery series, perfect for fans of Robin Steven’s Murder Most. The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger: New for 2022, a mystery-filled detective story for children, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens!

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger has been shortlisted for the Waterstones 2023 Children’s Book Prize! Their worlds collide when disaster strikes at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Lizzy’s father’s life is put under threat.

A thrilling adventure, where two Black children battle Elemental spirits to save Georgian London from a sleeping sickness.The second id the theatre, where the crime happens, and is therefore the main place of investigation. They team up, making notes and following suspects – until they’re plunged into terrible danger themselves.

One of the most important events is the large incident eight at the beginning of the story; this is what most of the detective work is based on.Now it is time for Lizzie and Belle to put their sleuthing skills to the ultimate test, following a trail of thefts, kidnappings and even poisonings that haunts the twisting London streets. Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. It is very interesting reading their letters to one another as it portrays their friendship in a way that description couldn’t, and I imagine that the author took time to ensure that the wording of the letters was perfect and even the font that she used resembles the characters in a very clear way. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. And after saving Lizzie’s father from attempted murder surely there is no threat too challenging for this detective duo?