Who Killed Darius

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: April 26, 2018

Review

A great starter book to hook mystery lovers. Philbrook writes really well for middles schools. Who killed Darius Drake is a blood-written note to Darius Blake himself. Darius is an orphan who is a brainiac. He hires the school bully to help him uncover the mystery with candy bars. Oh, he finds out he has inherited a creepy mansion. That his grandfather just got out of prison. That there is a multi-million dollar missing diamond necklace... This would be a fun book to use in a book group at school (grade 5/6) to discover this genre and to make predictions.

Overall Book Score: good

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About the Book

Author:

Philbrick, Rodman

Illustrator: ,

Publisher: the blue sky press/Scholastic

Book Type: chapter book fiction

Genre: adventure,mystery

Audience: grades 4-6,grades 7-9

Binding Type: trade edition

Binding Quality: good

ISBN: 9780545789783

Price: 17.99

This Book's Maine Connection: Maine author