Barrie Summy Book Title: I So Don't Do Mysteries Publication Date: December 9, 2008 Publisher: Delacorte Press--Random House ISBN: 978-0-385-73602-2 Author's Website: http://barriesummy.blogspot.com

Description of Book:

Sherry (short for Sherlock) Baldwin is really psyched for Spring Break. One that includes hanging with Josh Morton, the coolest, cutest guy at school; clothes shopping with her best friend, Junie; and getting romance advice from Junie’s mega popular, older cousin, Amber.

Enter Sherry’s supercop mother. She’s a ghost. A ghost who can only make contact with one person. Sherry. Mom’s flunking out of the Academy of Spirits, a school that trains ghosts to watch over the living. She'll be banished to an afterlife for ghost failures if Sherry doesn’t help her crack a case.

The assignment: to stop a rhino heist from a wildlife park in Southern California

The problem: "Eeks! Ike! Ack!" Sherry squeals. “I so don’t do mysteries!”

 

 

I So Don't Do Mysteries is a humorous novel about a typical middle-school girl who wants more mall time, less homework and a certain boy. Instead, she's recruited by her mother's ghost to solve a mystery, and her life is never typical again.

Random House will publish the sequel to this debut middle-grade mystery in 2009. 

 

About the Author:

 

Barrie Summy grew up in Canada on a steady diet of books and tobogganing. She tries to read a book a week and always breaks for tea and cookies at three o’clock.

 

Barrie lives in California with her husband, four children, two veiled chameleons, a dwarf hamster, and Dorothy the Dog. She’s currently hard at work on the next I So Don’t Do book.

 

 

 

 

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