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- Features best-selling AGC character Kit Kittredge in a new story--a mystery at the Cincinnati Zoo! - Mysteries are an ever-popular genre among girls. - Meets customer demand for new stories about favorite AGC characters. - Meets customer demand for longer, more challenging AGC novels--story is written at a fourth-grade level and runs about 100 pages longer than earlier AGC books. - Award-winning author--Kathleen Ernst has been nominated for the 2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery (for Trouble at Fort La Pointe) and the 2003 Agatha Award for Best Children's /YA Mystery (for Whistler in the Dark). - Full-color Looking Back. - Paperback version includes a tear-off recipe card on the back cover flap. Kathleen Ernst has written two other History Mysteries, Trouble at Fort La Pointe and Whistler in the Dark. She is also the author of four middle-grade novels set during the Civil War, as well as an adult nonfiction book. Awards and recognition include: - Betrayal at Cross Creek--"Children's Book Sense Picks" List, American Booksellers Association, summer 2004 - Whistler in the Dark--2003 Agatha Award nominee for Best Children's/YA Mystery; 2003 WILLA Literary Award Finalist, Women Writing the West; 2004-2005 Volunteer State Book Award Nominee, Tennessee Library Association/Tennessee Association of School Librarians - Trouble at Fort La Pointe--2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery - Ghosts of Vicksburg--2004 Arthur Tofte Juvenile Fiction Book award, Best Juvenile Novel by a Wisconsin Writer, Council of Wisconsin Writers, Inc. - Retreat from Gettysburg--2001 Arthur Tofte Fiction Book award, Best Juvenile Novelby a Wisconsin Writer, Council of Wisconsin Writers, Inc. - 2002 Emmy Award for Children's Programming, Nat'l Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Chicago/Midwest Chapter - Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign--Book of the Month Club/History Book Club Alternate Selection
Author Notes
Kathleen Ernst received a degree in forestry from West Virginia University. Before becoming a full time writer in 2004, she worked at an outdoor living history museum called Old World Wisconsin for 12 years and as a television writer. Her first published historical fiction novels were The Night Riders of Harpers Ferry and The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg. She has also written numerous American Girl novels including 6 books about Caroline Abbott published in 2012. Her other works include Hearts of Stone, the Chloe Ellefson Mystery series, and the nonfiction book Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 3-5-This book is for readers who have gone through the "American Girl" series and are moving up to slightly longer stories. Sixth-grader Kit is a child of the Great Depression, and her family takes in boarders to help make ends meet. Kit gets an assignment at the local newspaper to write "fun, wholesome" stories and decides to focus on a friend's volunteer work as a zoo tour guide. Another friend, Will, is back from some hard times on the road and gets a job at the zoo. When the monkey house doors are found unlocked and food is missing from the boarding house, Will is blamed. In the end, Kit gets her story, saves Will's job, and thwarts the real criminals in the nick of time. The book concludes with factual information about the Cincinnati Zoo. The action is moderately paced, and there is ample description to bring the story to life. While Ernst does a fairly good job setting out the trail with Kit picking up the clues, the novel is unlikely to be a first choice among mystery fans. However, those who love "American Girl" will be clamoring for it.-Sharon R. Pearce, Chippewa Elementary School, Bensenville, IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Fifth-grader Kit gets a job writing a children's column for the local newspaper and discovers who has been sneaking into the Cincinnati Zoo. This is a longer story than Meet Kit, but the characters remain thinly developed. The mystery pointedly teaches readers about life during the Depression. An illustrated afterword provides some more history about the zoo. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
