The London Eye Mystery
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Product Description
A five-star mystery now in paperback!
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye, but after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off—except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery.
This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller—a race against time.
★ “Everything rings true here, the family relationships, the quirky connections of Ted’s mental circuitry, and, perhaps most surprising, the mystery.”—Booklist, Starred
★ “The best mysteries have at their centers gifted but very human sleuths—their abilities balanced by equally significant flaws or idiosyncrasies. This one is no exception.”—The Horn Book Magazine, Starred
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Great book
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My fifth grade daughter read this in her reading club at school. It was a wonderful book and kept her interested the entire time. In fact, she couldn't put the book down until she had finished it. A true indication it was a good book.
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Ingenious Who-or-what-dunnit
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This mystery kept me in enjoyable suspense throughout. The author drops clues as well as false leads in a layered plot based on a boy's disappearance. Setting this book above the ordinary is the touch of humanity brought by seeing the world through the young, autistic narrator.
I listened to the 6 hour audiobook, which was very well read.
The book is for tweens and for adults who enjoy juvenile fiction. Other than some infrequent mild profanity, the book is quite clean.
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Spontaneous Combustion?
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Imagine having a relative disappear and you were supposed to be watching them. That is what happened in The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd when Aunt Gloria and her son Salim come to London to visit their relatives (Ted, who has a unique way of thinking, Kat, and the rest of their family). Kat, Ted and Salim go to the London Eye where they receive a ticket from a mysterious man who claimed he was afraid of heights. They decided that Salim should go, because he had never been on it before. When Salim gets to the top of the London Eye, Kat and Ted take their eyes off him for only a few seconds and when the capsule comes down that he was in, Kat and Ted don't see him. So this means that Kat and Ted have to find him.
My first response to this book when I read the first few chapters was wow; this book is really getting me hooked in fast. What I really wanted to find out was: what is going to happen to Salim? There are so many possibilities. He could have been kidnapped, he could have been in a disguise, or according to Ted, he could have spontaneously combusted. I think that it was a great book, and I recommend it to people who like mystery books.
Asa H.
Grade 6
Ms. Kawatachi
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An original and engaging listen
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This is a splendid YA mystery that I picked because it was on the Texas Library Association, 2009 Texas Lonestar Reading list. This list continues, year after year, to present the most entertaining page-turners out there.
Ted and his older sister, Kat, wait in line with their cousin, Salim to ride the London Eye. A stranger approaches them and offers them a free ticket for the ride. As Salim is the visitor, they urge him to take it and go ahead without them. They watch the glass capsule make the 30 minute circuit, carefully following its progress. As the sealed car empties at the end of the ride, Kat and Ted realize that Salim is not among the passengers. He went up the Eye, locked in a transparent, glass pod but did not return.
What happened to Salim?
Review of the audiobook:
This is a very interesting and multi-layered mystery. The most fascinating aspect to the story is the character of Ted who, apparently, has Asperger's Syndrome. He is fascinated with weather. He has encyclopedic knowledge of clouds and all weather phenomena. Listening to Ted, I was struck by how he uses something, as seemingly, unpredictable, as weather to help him relate in his own way to his family and the world around him.
In this story, Ted can handle and accept that there are variables to weather. An understanding of the many variables which impact the weather is soothing to him. If he can interpret the variables he can predict the weather. He cannot as easily interpret the swirling emotions of his family and the trauma and horror of a missing child. Of course it is his detached, out of the box thinking, that will solve the mystery of Salim's disappearance.
This is a terrific story and underscores to me AGAIN, how fiction--the genre--can shed light and insight and provide a new perspective.
It brought The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon to mind.
Paul Chequer's audiobook narration channels Ted's point of view perfectly. Before you are award of Ted's "syndrome," as he refers to it, his intonation and cadence feel slightly off. As the listener falls in to the story though it works very well.
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Quick read
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This is a good read for junior high kids. The mystery moves quickly--I was anxious to discover what had happened to Salim. It sheds light as well on a character with Asperger's; his very "disability" helps him to see things differently and offer a solution.
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