by Siobhan Dowd
This book had a much lighter tone than "A Swift Pure Cry," which made for a more fun, lighthearted mystery. The main character is a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome. I wasn't sure how that was going to work at first - would he be interesting or just annoying? - but it worked out really well. ...
The London Eye Mystery is a decent little mystery for kids - a boy goes missing between boarding the London Eye and getting off - but that's not really what sets this book apart from others. It's the narrator, a 12-year-old boy Ted, who does that.I found the beginning a little slow, and to be honest...
At 11.32 in the morning Ted and his sister Kate watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye. Half an hour later the pod empties, but Salim isn’t in the group of people exiting.Soon the police have been warned and theories are flying around. Did Salim run away, was he kidnapped, didn’t he sp...
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Ted’s Aunt Gloria and cousin Salim are stopping in London to visit on their way to New York to live. While there, Ted, his sister Kate, and Salim set out to go on the London Eye. But due to a mysterious set of circumstances, only Salim ends up going–and when the Eye comes down, he’s not there.His di...
This YA "mystery" is told from the point of view of a kid with Aspergers, which means the writing is really affected. This worked for me in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time because i believed, more or less, in the character. Here, it just seems like a plot device. After about 50 pag...
So far, the Possum has checked this out and so have I, but neither of us ever actually got into it. But I enjoyed Bog Child so much, and I've heard good things about this one, too.Having finally got around to it, it was great.
Fabulous mystery, told from the point of view of an Aspersers character.
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