The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Beauvais, Clémentine

Gargoyles Gone AWOL

199 pp. | Holiday | May, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-3205-9 $16.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8234-3374-2

(3) 4-6 Sesame Seade Mystery series. Illustrated by Sarah Horne. Precocious youngster Sesame Seade tackles the mystery of Cambridge University's missing gargoyles. Aided by a pair of purple roller skates and classmates Gemma and Toby, Sesame tracks down leads that bring her uncomfortably close to home. With an exciting plot and a perfectly droll first-person voice, this second installment avoids the buffoonery often found in humorous middle-grade novels. Spot art highlights the action.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez