The Thea Sisters follow a trail of clues through Paris towards a garden that may or may not still exist.
Volume thirty-eight in the Thea Stilton series keeps the format middle-grade readers know: a puzzle to solve, five friends with distinct strengths, colourful pages, and text broken up by illustration. The mystery rewards attention rather than luck, and the girls make progress by noticing things, checking their assumptions and covering for one another. Friendship, persistence and teamwork sit underneath the adventure without the story stopping to lecture about them.
Quick orientation:
• The thirty-eighth Thea Stilton title, readable on its own
• A Paris setting woven through the clue trail
• Colour-printed illustrated pages throughout
• Pitched at confident independent readers and read-alouds
A good match for middle-grade mystery fans and for gift buyers, available from Boipoka.