Title: The Invisible Island (A-Z Mysteries)Author: Ron RoyGenre: Mystery – Children’sChallenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Read and Review Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 + Reading Challenge, Audio Book Challenge 2010, ...
I read “The Absent Author” by Ron Roy. It is a cute kids book about an Author who gets kidnapped. The story takes place in a town called Green Lawn during the summer. The whole story happens within two days. The main characters of the book are Dink, Ruth Rose, Josh, and Mavis Green. Dink, Rut...
DINK, JOSH, AND RUTH ROSE are spending Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They can't wait to see the sights and have a Thanksgiving dinner just like the Pilgrims would have eaten. Then the kids learn about a sapphire necklace that went missing on the real Mayflower. Could the 400-year-old t...
My niece enjoys these A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy, so we decided to try reading a few in anticipation of Halloween.My niece said that she enjoyed Zombie Zone and said that it was pretty scary. At first I didn't think that she was going to really care much for this story because she seemed to hav...
I read this book with my children (10 and 6). Though I thought this was as interesting as the others, my children didn't find it as captivating. My 6-year-old actually thought it was boring when we were about half way through. They ended up liking it at the end. They still want to continue wi...
Don't miss A to Z Mysteries--alphabetic adventures that are full of thrills, chills, and cases to crack! W is for Wolf... In the twenty-third book of the A to Z Mysteries--an early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl characters--Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visi...
G is for Gold...Sun, sand--and sunken treasure? That's what Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose discover when they go on vacation to Florida. An old ship has been found off the coast, and it's full of gold! Two divers are collecting donations to bring up the loot. They're promising to share whatever they f...
Title: The Haunted HotelAuthor: Ron RoySeries: A to Z Mysteries #8Rating: ★★★★Summary: A ghostly guest has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It's almost Halloween and reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn's only hotel. Hotel guests and neighbors are being ...
Detective Camp was about three kids that solved a mystery about Grandma Moses paintings that were stolen by Mademoiselle Musee. The camp was the setting and took place on a in Bear Walk Vermont. The most exciting part of Dective Camp was when Dink, Ruth Rose, Josh, The Darbys, Detective Rob, and ...
When I was young I read all of the A to Z Mysteries religiously. I loved them.But I love "The Vampire's Vacation" all the more now because I have used it in the classroom. As an ESL teacher in Tajikistan, I selected this book because it was one of the few the American Embassy's library in our tow...
Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries(r) have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back w...
Don't miss A to Z Mysteries--alphabetic adventures that are full of thrills, chills, and cases to crack! O is for Orange... In the fifteenth book of the A to Z Mysteries--an early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl characters--an art thief is on the loose! Dink, Josh, and R...
Title: The Quicksand QuestionAuthor: Ron RoyOpinions and feelings about storyI feel that this story is very interesting. They describe the characters using good phrases. I will recommend this book to my friends.What is the story about?Everyone in Green Lawn is in a quake about the ducks that keep...
In this book, Dink sees a family of falcon birds. It is the first falcon family in Green Lawn. They climb the tree and look at the birds with binoculars. One day, they climbed the same tree where the falcons live and the falcons disappeared! So they went to the pet store to tell the owner abo...
There's pandemonium in Green Lawn! The town is building a new park for a panda and her baby. But as soon as the pandas arrive, the baby is stolen! All the panda-nappers want in return is a million dollars. . . . Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose collar the culprits before Green Lawn has to cough up t...
Title: The Lucky LotteryAuthor: Ron RoySeries: A to Z Mysteries #12Rating: ★★★★Summary: L is for Lucky...And that's just how Lucky O'Leary feels when the lottery ticket his grandfather sends him for Christmas turns out to be a million-dollar winner But before Lucky can cash it in, someone sneaks ...
I thought this book was predictable and somewhat ridiculous. However, my 6 and 9 year olds loved it. They found it exciting and also liked that it was possible to solve it. It has sparked some new interests for them. Overall, I have found all of the books in this series (so far) to be fun for sh...
Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries(r) have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back w...
C is for Canary...Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get an urgent call from Mrs.Davis. Her canary is missing! The little bird has vanished without a trace, andhe's not the only one. Two other pets are missing. The kids suspect apet-napper, and now that Ruth Rose's cat, Tiger, has turned up missing too, i...
This book is about three friends who are visiting Forest Evens, who owns a winning race horse. People begin to get fureous that Forest's horse, Whirlaway, is winning and a friend of Forest steals WHirlaway. Whirlaway just so happens to have a twin who is much slower than he is and the man who sto...
“The Deadly Dungeon” is a book written about three kids Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose who are going to visit their friend Wallis Wallace. The journey starts off with the three riding in a bus on the way to Belfast, Maine where they would be picked up by Wallis. To their surprise Wallis does not pick ...
N is for Nugget...Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are spending a week at a dude ranch. Everything is normal in a cowboy kind of way–until Josh finds a huge gold nugget! Just as they are deciding what to do with their newfound riches, the nugget disappears. Will the kids be able to track down the thief ...
