For Ages
8 to 12

The adventure that began in Siobhan Dowd's popular novel The London Eye Mystery at long last continues as three kids investigate a theft at the Guggenheim Museum.

When Ted and his big sister, Kat, take a trip to New York to visit their cousin Salim and their aunt Gloria, they think they're prepared for big-city adventures. But when a famous painting is stolen from the Guggenheim Museum, where Aunt Gloria works, the surprises begin to mount faster than they could have anticipated. With the police looking at Aunt Gloria as the prime suspect, Ted, Kat, and Salim become sleuthing partners, following a trail of clues across NYC to prove her innocence--and to pinpoint the real thief. Ultimately, it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery.

An Excerpt fromThe Guggenheim Mystery

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Patterns

 

Here are some facts about me.

 

My name is Ted Spark.

 

I am twelve years and 281 days old.

 

I have seven friends.

 

There are nine lies in the silver folder labeled my lies that I keep in my desk drawer.

 

I am going to be a meteorologist when I grow up, so I can help people when the weather goes wrong. This is something that will happen more and more in the future. The world is heating up because of increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is causing the seas to rise, and weather to become more extreme and unpredictable. This is very interesting and also very concerning. I don’t know why the rest of my family--Mum and Dad and my sister, Kat--are not as worried about this as I am.

 

It might have something to do with my funny brain, which works on a different operating system than other people’s. It makes patterns like the weather very important to me, and makes me notice things that no one else could. I see the way things connect,…

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