(2) 4-6 Wells & Wong Mystery series. Detective Society members Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong spend the holidays at Cambridge University. A reunion with the Junior Pinkertons leads to a bet--which is the better detective society?--and some flirting. Then a student is found murdered, and the societies collaborate. Stevens's frost-dusted 1935 Cambridge, England, is an appealing backdrop for this fifth adolescent whodunit. Wells and Wong's partnership is as entertaining as ever. Glos.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2018

(3) 4-6 Wells & Wong Mystery series. Fall of 1935 finds a new Head Girl and her mean-girl minions making life miserable for Daisy, Hazel, and their Deepdean schoolmates. A murder on Bonfire Night and scandalous secrets put Daisy and Hazel's Detective Society back in action, but they face complication as their own friendship sours. It's an unexpected twist that makes room for character development in this compelling fourth mystery.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger

(3) 4-6 Wells & Wong Mystery series. Aboard the famed Orient Express, sleuthing schoolmates Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong try their best to heed Mr. Wong's one holiday rule of no crime-solving. But when a young heiress is murdered and another undercover detective appears searching for a spy, the two friends are thrust into their third mystery. A clever and diverting homage to Agatha Christie's classic work, with perceptive musings on racism and classism.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(3) 4-6 Wells & Wong Mystery series. It's Daisy's fourteenth birthday, and her best pal and fellow Detective Society member Hazel is there to celebrate. When a party guest is murdered, the sleuths face a suspect list that includes--gulp--Daisy's father. Following Murder Is Bad Manners, Stevens serves up another cozy Golden Age–style mystery (1930s English manor setting--check; no outside suspects--check), with two likable heroines to boot.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger

(4) 4-6 Short, clumsy fourteen-year-old Charlie lives with his family above their Chinese takeout restaurant, and his only friend is bullied oddball Sinus. Charlie discovers his one true talent--skateboarding--at the same time he discovers his overprotective mother's life-size secret. Written in Charlie's humorous, hyperbolic first-person voice, the story is sometimes implausible and its depiction of the Chinese British tends toward stereotypical.

Reviewer: Amy Seto Forrester

(3) 4-6 Wells & Wong Mystery series. Pals Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are desperate for a mystery to solve, but when Hazel finds the dead body of teacher Miss Bell, she's absolutely gobsmacked. The details of the girls' friendship and the 1930s English boarding school setting are just swell, and readers who fancy mysteries will have masses of fun with this ace murder story.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Grace Lin. To Yenyee, the Pacific Ocean capriciously changes people's lives. In China, her fisherman father is lost in a storm, despite her tossing in her beloved jade necklace as an offering. After immigrating to Canada alone, she saves a drowning friend, and the sea returns the pendant and indirectly reunites her with her mother and brother. The story is told with lyrical symbolism and complemented by folkloric illustrations.

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