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The Case of the Missing Moonstone

10/24/2015

 
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Series: The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency; 1
Author: Jordan Stratford 
RU Level: 6

Did you know that the world's first computer programmer and the world's first science-fiction author were women?  Can you imagine if they joined forces, as girls, to form a detective agency? The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency has its first case when Ada Byron and Mary Shelley hunt for a stolen Turkish moonstone. In a time when girls access to outside world of London was limited, these clever girls enlist the help of a young Charles Dickens, visit Newgate Prison, and travel in a hot-air balloon to solve the case.

Just as interesting as the fictional account are the end notes which give factual information concerning the real-life characters.  A book which morphs fact into clever fiction while characterizing unusual women as likable and ahead of their time.


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