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The Super Secret Mystery

by Stephanie Barden
Diane Goode
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Stephanie Barden has created a great role model for tweens. Cinderella Smith is confident, smart, and very real. Fans of Junie B. Jones and Clementine will love watching Cinderella conquer the problems of third-grade life, and parents will appreciate the vocabulary-enhancing words Stephanie Barden sprinkles through the story.

In The Super-Secret Mystery, third in the Cinderella Smith chapter-book series, Cinderella is excited to write a report on an endangered species. She can't wait to investigate this important environmental issue. But every book she needs to do her research has disappeared from the library! That won't stop Cinderella. She won't be stopped by the mean-girl bullies and will follow every clue until she solves the mystery of the missing books.

Illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Diane Goode add to the appeal of Cinderella's story.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Cinderella Smith

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 23, 2013

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780062208415

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780062208415
      • File size: 5837 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.2
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      March 1, 2013
      Cinderella Smith, shoe-losing third-grader, is back, now facing the challenges of a research project. Third-grade is the year when some kids (the Rosemarys, in this case) appoint themselves too old for childish things, while others (Cinderella and her posse) are still happy to jump and hop and slither when the zoo docent instructs them to. Alas! It's hard to know what to do if you are Cinderella Smith. When the class is assigned a research project on animals, the children decide they want to shock and amaze their classmates. This turns out to be harder than they thought. Cinderella wants to study ocelots, but the books she needs mysteriously disappear from the library. She and her friends, the self-named Group in Cahoots, come up with a cooperative way to shock and amaze everyone, even the Rosemarys. Fans of this series will appreciate the subtle changes that happen in these sunny stories: The boys and girls are growing up and noticing each other in different ways--they solve problems and forgive each other, even when the Rosemarys conspire to ruin things. Goode's black-and-white illustrations add humor and emotion to the story and, in the end, even make a lovely visual reference to the real Cinderella story when Charlie puts his basketball shoe on Cinderella's bare foot. Charming. (Fiction. 7-10)

      COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2013
      Third grader Cinderella wants to keep her school project on ocelots a secret so she can "shock and amaze" the class. But the library books she's waiting for go missing, so she and her best friend must solve the mystery of who took them. Barden has a "vexylent" ("very, extremely excellent") understanding of her audience, and Goode's line drawings embody the tale's lightness.

      (Copyright 2013 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.2
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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