Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from ToReadToNap

My first post BEA13 (Book Expo America) read is Octavia Spencer's new children's mystery "Randi Rhodes Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit". Ms. Spencer cites Nancy Drew as a childhood favorite and it is clear that her new series taps into that lineage. I must say I approached th...

from sszkutak

Randi Rhodes is the only child of author Herb Rhodes, the mastermind behind the great detective series staring Glenn Street; so it isn't surprising that Randi herself aspires to be a great detective. After the passing of her mother, and her father giving up his writing for a while; they move to t...

from MaowangVater

Since her mother's death a year ago twelve-year-old Miranda Rhodes has taken on the role of Glenn Street, the fictional girl detective in her father's series of best-selling mysteries. She's solved thirty-two cases in her Brooklyn neighborhood, "cases that the NYPD won't bother with...litterbugs....

from bookbrig

A simple mystery that reads fairly quickly. The kid detective storyline was a bit silly, but not totally over the top or far fetched, and the characters were likeable. One of the leads has asthma (which I don't know much about, so I can't really speak to the realism of that depiction), the ninja ...

from librisissimo

Good enough for the target audience. Somewhat stereotyped (what isn't, for this age?), but reasonably done story. The clues for the mystery were fairly laid and solved by the kids (age 12).