Title: The Case of the Loathsome School Lunches
Author: Angie Lake
Genre: mystery
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Summary (provided by publisher): Introducing schoolgirl detective, Mina Mistry...
Being at school is boring. It’s really boring when you already know what you’re going to be. It’s really, really boring when you’re going to be something cool like a Private Investigator.
Until then, Mina’s going to practise for her future. By keeping notes on all her classmates, spying on suspicious teachers, noticing every little—
Wait ...
Aren’t school lunches a bit strange? Chicken nuggets? Again? On Pizza? Covered in chocolate? Nobody wants to live on lettuce and broccoli, but children are losing teeth over this! This needs investigating.
This looks like a case for Mina Mistry.
My opinion: Let's be frank. The plot of this book is a little bit nonsense. It takes the idea of a kid detective discovering a conspiracy to something of an extreme. Accepting this plot requires a fair amount of suspension of disbelief. I'd say it qualifies as wish fulfillment. Mina snoops around and uncovers a conspiracy perpetrated by supposedly responsible adults. She and her friends are deeply involved in organizing events for their school. The topics skew a bit older than the reading level. Interesting but not compelling in the long term.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley
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