Agatha Oddly Detective Series Lena Jones 3 Books Collection - The Secret Key, Murder at the Museum, The Silver Serpent

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And in book 3, an assistant at the National Gallery has gone missing, but something bigger than anything she could ever have imagined takes her travelling throughout London.

Every so often I change up my reading and read a middle grade book. Almost every time I realise how amazing they are and vow to read more. Never has the case been more true than with Agatha Oddly. This book isn't even released yet and I already want the next one! Agatha is super smart! She has a scholarship to the prestigious St Regis School and a room full of green and gold-embossed editions of detective books to help her solve any mystery. Agatha Oddlow is on the case with yet another adventure! An assistant at the National Gallery has gone missing, but when Agatha begins investigating, she uncovers a plot bigger than she could ever have imagined. Join Agatha as she travels throughout London and into the very heart of the mystery…

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The Secret Key: Meet thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of a stylish new detective series.Agatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first big case. It was lovely to catch up with Agatha again just a couple of months after reading the first adventure in the series. This time Agatha stumbles across a breaking news article about a murder at the British Museum and decides she must know more. Her exploring leads her down to the old abandoned British Museum tube station where she uncovers a bigger mystery. I especially didn’t like how the main character Agatha had a ‘I’m not like other girls’ attitude which is something I really despise and I hate this trope in books. To have this shown in a middle grade book is just even more frustrating as it’s so harmful. This puts girl/women down and pits them against each other. It also perpetuates the notion that because some girls like to wear make up or enjoying shopping and doing their hair etc... they’re less than. What’s wrong with liking these things? Thinking ‘I’m not like other girls’ is associating the qualities you hate with girls/women.

This is the twelfth –” the headmaster glances up from his notes –“no, let me correct that – the thirteenth time you’ve been in trouble this term, Agatha.” But she said Agatha should think about real puzzles, not just word searches and numbers. She had said: ‘Everybody is a puzzle, Agatha. Everyone in the street has their own story, their own reasons for being the way they are, their own secrets. Those are the really important puzzles.’This really happened – he was – but without evidence I had to drop my investigation. Plus, Dad grounded me. I have developed such a fondness for Agatha over the course of this book and the previous. Throughout Murder at the Museum we see the continuation of Agatha trying to discover the truth behind her mother’s death. There’s a section in the story where Agatha believes she is finally about to get the answers she’s looking for only to be disappointed, and that was actually quite sad to read. I hope before the series ends Agatha will get to find out the truth. Erfahren tun wir alles erneut aus der Sicht der 13-jährigen Agatha in der Ich-Perspektive. Mit Agatha sind den Autoren, die sich hinter dem Pseudonym Lena Jones verbergen, eine richtig coole Protagonistin gelungen. Agatha ist so ein Mädel, wie ich sie in Büchern liebe: Gewitzt, mutig und extrem tough und schlagfertig. Agatha ist wirklich nie um einen flotten Spruch verlegen. Sie lässt sich nicht unterkriegen und besitzt eine enorm gute Auffassungs- und Kombinationsgabe. Vor Agathas messerscharfen Verstand und ihren brillanten Fähigkeiten kann man wirklich nur den Hut ziehen. Sie ist einfach einzigartig und die geborene Detektivin.

A modern-day Agatha Christie! Get ready to investigate the ODDLIEST of cases with the wonderful cosy mysteries of Agatha Oddly, the perfect series by Lena Jones for all readers ages 7+! Due to her father's job, she lives in a small cabin in Hyde Park, which also happens to be the center of a few mysterious happenings. When things escalate and London's water supply is contaminated by a toxin, Agatha steps in to save the day! I zone out. I’ve always found this easy – like switching channels on TV. If I want to watch something more interesting, I just imagine it. I call it my ‘Change Channel’ mechanism. Your headmaster has already been talking for twenty-two minutes.” Poirot raises an eyebrow, as though daring me to do something about it. “He might break his record of twenty-seven, no?” Agatha’s late mother named her after Agatha Christie. She got Agatha to read the complete works of Agatha Christie – the mysteries of Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence – because Agatha liked solving puzzles.If you love cosy mystery detective books and want more like this, you may want to take a look at some of our best crime and mystery fiction, the much-loved Murder Most Unladylike Mystery series or Montgomery Bonbon!