This novel is about a girl, Beatrice Ross, "Bee" who works in the taxidermy lab at the Museum of Natural History. Her boss is then murdered, at least they thought he was. Bee decides she wants to find out why Gus (her boss) had died, so she decides to be like her favourite detectives in novels sh...
I hated this book so much that I was compelled to throw it straight in the bin. Instead, I donated it to a library so that someone else could feel the strong rage that this book evokes. There's something about the protagonist and her continuous naivety that drove me mad. She was too dumb to be re...
The character of Penny hits you immediately: she's a no-nonsense, high-achieving 16-year-old set on a career as a Pulitzer-winning journalist. She knows what she wants, knows how to get it, and knows she's right about everything. Her journo's intuition leads her to what she imagines will be the j...
‘It turns out he’s totally famous. My professor says he’s been overlooked for a Nobel Prize like a hundred times. He did this thing with horseshoe crabs where he found they had crazy blue blood that clots when it encounters bacteria. Now they use it to test pharmaceuticals, and to check for bacte...
You are ambidextrous. You can lift weights heavier than your own body. You can grasp a new avocation in an instant. You do not require food or drink to survive. You are loved by your true family. You love your Daddy. I struggled to keep my composure at those last words, unable to erase the mental...
I guessed I’d scared him off. I spent the day checking his blog and loveshyforum.com every five minutes to see if he’d posted anything. In the end Ms Tidy took my phone off me, with an apologetic look. ‘You can have it back after school.’ Traitor. And after I’d helped her out by pointing out the ...