The big sting / Rachelle Delaney.
Usually avoiding adventure of any kind, eleven-year-old Leo is unfortunately drawn into a mystery, along with his danger-loving sister, when his late Grandma's beehives go missing and his ornery Grandpa needs help catching the sticky-fingered thieves.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735269309
- ISBN: 0735269300
- Physical Description: 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Tundra, [2023]
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | 640L Lexile Decoding demand: 95 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 89 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile 8-12 3-7 |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 6 518122. |
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Subject: | Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction. Siblings > Juvenile fiction. Beehives > Juvenile fiction. Detective and mystery stories > Juvenile literature. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Caruthersville Public Library | JF DEL (Text) | 38417100642901 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Keller Public Library-Dexter | J Fic Del (Text) | 3376400015759 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Poplar Bluff - Main Library | UP DELANEY (Text) | 38420101789374 | UPPER ELEMENTARY FICTION | Available | - |
Ste. Genevieve County Library | J Delaney (Text) | 33358000335862 | J Fiction | Available | - |
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The Big Sting
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Summary
The Big Sting
A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's beehives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Eleven-year-old Leo is an "armchair adventurer." This, according to Dad, means he'd choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences. And while Leo hates the label, he can't argue with it. Unlike his little sister Lizzie, Leo is not a risk-taker. So when he, Lizzie, Mom and Dad leave the city to visit Grandpa on Heron Island, Leo finds all kinds of dangers to avoid -- from the deep, dark ocean to an old barn on the verge of collapse. But nothing on the island is more fearsome than Grandpa himself -- Leo has never met anyone so grumpy! According to Mom, Grandpa is still grieving the recent death of his wife, a beekeeper beloved by everyone on the island. Despite Leo's best efforts to avoid it, adventure finds him anyway when Grandma's beehives go missing in the dead of night. Infuriated, Grandpa vows to track down the sticky-fingered thieves himself . . . with risk-averse Leo and danger-loving Lizzie (plus a kitten named Mayhem) in tow.