Friday Barnes: Girl Detective

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: February 10, 2016

Review

Friday Barnes loves to solve a good mystery, and she is good at it. When she solves one dealing with a dishonest banker, she earns a rewards and uses it to send herself to the best school in the country. Once there, she begins to solve all kinds of mysteries including the one dealing with the monster in the swamp. This is fun detective book with some great lines in it. Friday is clever and confident. She is not a particularly likeable person to those around her but she doesn't care. She finds clues no matter how small and uses them along with her powers of observations to solve all the crimes and mysteries she comes across. Most of the other characters are not as bright as she is and the adults are either slow, criminals or spacey. Ruby Redfort readers will like this one.

Overall Book Score: very good