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Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock
5.0
I just happened to pick up these books about Sherlock Holmes (four in the series) in a recent library shelf run.
This is a darker read than my two kiddos generally like, and my 15-year-old daughter described it as "intense," but I enjoyed it. It's not for a younger middle grade audience. In fact, it's probably somewhere between MG and YA. Later books in the series are definitely YA, as they feature drug use and a lot of violence.
Sherlock is a teen, bullied at school, who runs away and ends up living on the streets, hunted by police and gangs alike, while trying to clear the name of a man who's been accused of committing a murder. He teams up, however briefly and distastefully, with Moriarty and his street gang, but as readers of the original stories, we all know the only direction that relationship can go -- downhill.
By the end, Sherlock solves the murder but is responsible for a death that will haunt him, possibly forever... I went on the read all four books, but my kiddos did not.
Visit my blog for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/
This is a darker read than my two kiddos generally like, and my 15-year-old daughter described it as "intense," but I enjoyed it. It's not for a younger middle grade audience. In fact, it's probably somewhere between MG and YA. Later books in the series are definitely YA, as they feature drug use and a lot of violence.
Sherlock is a teen, bullied at school, who runs away and ends up living on the streets, hunted by police and gangs alike, while trying to clear the name of a man who's been accused of committing a murder. He teams up, however briefly and distastefully, with Moriarty and his street gang, but as readers of the original stories, we all know the only direction that relationship can go -- downhill.
By the end, Sherlock solves the murder but is responsible for a death that will haunt him, possibly forever... I went on the read all four books, but my kiddos did not.
Visit my blog for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/