Content: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
12yo Viviani Fedeler lives in an apartment with her family in the New York Public Library. It's 1929 and her father is the superintendent, so she has the run of the place. When Vivian grows up, she wants to be a newspaper reporter. When she hears about a story contest where the winner gets their story published in the paper she knows she can win - if only she had the perfect story. Hoping for inspiration, she overhears the librarians talking about a mystery going on in the library involving overdue books. Perhaps, getting involved and finding the culprit will help break her writer's block and finally get her published.
I would have loved to have lived in the library when I was that age. Tubb has based this series on an actual family. A fun mystery that I think the reader will enjoy solving along with Viviani - and there's even a code to break. I'm not sure, however, that my readers would embrace the nostalgia, and that's the best part.
Lisa Librarian
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