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The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1) (edición 2016)

por Jordan Stratford (Autor), Kelly Murphy (Ilustrador)

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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
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Título:The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1)
Autores:Jordan Stratford (Autor)
Otros autores:Kelly Murphy (Ilustrador)
Información:Yearling (2016), Edition: Dgs, 240 pages
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this lively, fun detective story was fun to read, but I could not stop being annoyed by the stretching of historical characters. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
This is a cute middle-grade mystery imagining the mischief Ada Byron Lovelace and Mary Godwin Shelley could have gotten into had they been contemporaries. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens and Percy Shelley, this novel is an homage of sorts to the greatest creative minds of 19th-century England. A little silly and a little too modern in thinking for the time period, this is still a fun intro to the genre for young readers. ( )
  ImperfectCJ | May 3, 2023 |
-alternative what if historical fiction in which historical figures Ada Byron and Mary Shelley are you girls who become friends and start a detective agency to catch "clever" criminals who evade capture by the police.
-both characters have differences from each other which makes for interesting exchanges and conversations
-Mary's acceptence of Ada despite Ada's anti social behaviour makes her character a good roll model for young readers.
-book about friendship.
-no violence or fowl language to speak of. ( )
  wolfe.myles | Feb 28, 2023 |
Fun romp with a reimagined childhood for an excellent cast of Romantic era authors and thinkers -- while it's not a complex read, I'm glad to have soemthing to recommend for fans of Enola Holmes. Between this and Sherlock, Lupin and Me, I'm glad to see a new crop of interesting kid detectives. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
This book is one of the most fun depictions of a genius kid (Ada Byron, aka Ada Lovelace). She's quite a character--completely clueless about social interaction, and yet ten steps ahead of everybody else. This author has a gift for writing hilarious banter and situations.

It's an interesting plus that these characters are at least vaguely historical (the back of the book has a fascinating section explaining where the idea of Percy, Mary, Ada, Charles, etc. come from). They weren't all together historically like this, but the fact that they were real people and many of them did at least have some real connection to each other added a bit to the charm of the story.

But despite its historical semi-plausibility, Ada is an over-the-top character who is impossible to take seriously, so the book puts itself firmly in the tongue-in-cheek story genre. Given that, I'm not sure why I was so bothered by the conclusion where something very unlikely happens with Ada's balloon. (That shouldn't be a spoiler; you knew when the story opened with a big balloon that something had to happen to it, and you probably also looked at the picture on the cover.)

As a detective story, it's not very sophisticated. I'm pretty sure if you know what "mesmerism" is you'd figure who did it and how long before Ada did. (Also, how does a pendant "have the property of mesmerism"? This is clearly not a hard-nosed detective story.) But I didn't enjoy this because it was a detective story; I enjoyed it because of Ada (and to a lesser extent the other characters).

I first picked up this book because our girls (10 and 7) have grown fascinated by detective stories, and they loved it. Maybe they liked it better because they didn't know what "mesmerism" was going into the story, but honestly, it was a lot of fun for me and them. ( )
  garyrholt | Nov 5, 2020 |
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For Xoe, and for Kane and Molly and Fern, and for Jo and Violet and Quinn and the other Violet and Ivy, and for Amelia and Lily and Savannah and Jessie and Megan, and for Sophia and Stella and Flora, and for Mimi and Beatarix and every brave and clever and curious girl who lent a word or gesture or look to these characters. I'm counting on you, kiddos.
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Preface: This is a made-up story about two very real girls: Ada Byron, who has been called the world's first computer programmer, and Mary Shelley, the world's first science fiction author. Ada and Mary didn't really know one another, nor did they have a detective agency together. Mary and Ada were eighteen years apart in age, not three, as they are in the world of Wollstonecraft.
Setting that aside, the characters themselves are as true to history as we are able to tell. At the end of the book, there are notes that reveal more aobut what happened to each of them in real life, so that you can enjoy the history as much as I hope you'll enjoy the story. Because the history bit is brilliant. -Jordan Stratford
Chapter 1: The Ridiculous Hat: "Force ... equals ... mass ... times ... acceleration," muttered Ada as she wrote in her notebook.
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"Open the door. Please. We'd like to go in." / "Well, that very curious indeed, miss. Folks don't often ask to get in [Newgate Prison]. It's the wanting to get out that you usually hear about. / "In which case," continued Ada, "letting us in can hardly be a problem, can it?" (p. 110)
The gloom was thick, almost sticky with sorry and defeat and other unpleasantness. Mary could feel a sadness creeping into her bones. (p. 111)
"Smell that," he said. There was something magical about the smell of oiled leather, and binding glue, and fresh paper. Mary loved books, and all hers had pages that had turned ivory, wiht soft edges, lie childhood blankets. But this book was new, perfect, like an undiscovered country. (p. 138)
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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--

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