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Crime Club

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Wait time: About 2 weeks

Sixteen-year-old Penny Capelli has moved with her mom and huge dog, Ollie, to live above a small-town pub owned by her aunt.

It's a relief to start over in a place where no one knows Penny's father is in prison. It's summer and the only person she knows is her nerdy cousin, Simon. Soon she meets Simon's best friend, Brent, and Brent's twin sister, Tara, and their pug, Wolfgang. Penny starts thinking this summer won't be so bad after all. But then Ollie digs up a bone in the backyard of the pub. A human bone. And then a few more. It turns out the bone is over twenty years old. Who could it be? Penny and Simon decide to investigate. Together with Brent and Tara, they form the Crime Club. And before long they discover one thing: if you've killed before, you can kill again.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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    • Kirkus

      June 15, 2019
      Murder seems to be following 16-year-old Penny wherever she goes. After her father pleads guilty to murder, Penny is uprooted from her home and sent to live with her aunt in Mudville, a small Ontario town on Lake Erie. Upon her arrival in Canada from the U.S., Penny quickly gets reacquainted with her cousin, Simon, and meets his friends, twins Tara and Brent. The mystery progresses quickly when Penny's big shaggy dog, Ollie, digs up a human skeleton. At first the teens decide it's best to keep the bones a secret and investigate on their own, but in Mudville, news spreads fast. Before Penny can blink, police are on the scene and a murder from a couple of decades ago is under investigation. But by digging up the past, they might just find that the murderer is still at large and dangerous. Campbell (The Goddaughter Does Vegas, 2019, etc.) has written a fast-paced, tightly plotted story using simple language to cover areas of high interest to teens such as moving, making friends, dating, and solving crime. This fun thriller is occasionally marred by the characters' stigmatizing descriptions of a disabled character that are not questioned or discussed in the text. Characters are presumed white. An accessible thriller for reluctant readers. (Thriller. 12-18)

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