A Mysterious Review of The Search for Baby Ruby by Susan Shreve. A Middle Grade Mystery.
Review summary: The premise of this mystery is so flawed it's hard to know where to start. Maybe the whole purpose of the story is to illustrate that families, even dysfunctional ones, come together in times of crisis, but there has to be a better way of getting this point across, especially in a book intended for middle grade readers. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Search for Baby Ruby
Susan Shreve
A Middle Grade Mystery
Scholastic (May 2015)
Publisher synopsis: It was just a few minutes. Stuck in a hotel room babysitting while the rest of her family celebrated downstairs in the hotel, Jess thought she'd try on her sister's wedding dress in the large bathroom while the baby slept. But when Jess opens the door again the baby is gone. Fighting guilt and terror, Jess and her kleptomaniac sister Teddy evade the swirl of police and hotel staff in their own desperate effort to get Baby Ruby back before it's too late.
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