Shelley Holmes Ace Detective

Band: Extended
Scheme: Tree Tops
Type: Fiction
Author: Michaela Morgan
ISBN: 9780198447696
Shelley Holmes Ace Detective book cover

What's the book about?

A clever girl gets bored one day watching TV and decides it would be much more exciting to become a real detective. With her best friend as her assistant and her dog by her side, she starts looking for clues all around her neighbourhood. Soon they discover a worrying mystery that is making local animals sick, and it’s up to them to solve the case and help keep every creature safe.

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Reviews

Ciaran, Age 7

Rating:

This book is about
One day Shelley is bored and decides she wants to be a detective. She asks her friend, Kelly, to be her trusty assistant. They discover that the dogs and fish that are near or in the canal are getting ill. They show the vet a dead fish and ask if she can help to investigate what is making the animals ill. Dustbin (Shelley's dog) finds a pipe in the canal that is polluting the water. They find that the pollution is coming from a factory.

The main characters are
Shelley, Dustbin and Kelly.

My favourite part of the book is
When the vet says, Even I can't cure a dead fish.

I would also like to say
Some parts of this book are in a comic style.

Charlotte, Age 8

Rating:

This book is about
A girl called Shelley who wants to be a detective.

My favourite part of the book is
The exciting mystery involving animals.

I would also like to say
Shelley has a trusty assistant called Kelly.