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Super Sleuth #1
Super Sleuth: Twelve Solve-It-Yourself Mysteries
Readers are invited to use their own skills of deduction when they follow twelve-year-old Ellen Sloan, supersleuth as she solves funny, true-to-life neighborhood crimes
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 5, 1985
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About the author
Jackie Vivelo
15 books2 followersJackie was the author of more than fifteen books, including the hugely successful Super Sleuth series, published in hardcover by Putnam and later as best-selling book club paperbacks. In addition to mysteries for intermediate readers, her books include picture books; award-winning short story collections; and nonfiction, ranging from textbooks to the widely acclaimed, co-edited We Wait in the Darkness: An Anthology of American Indian Prose and Poetry. A review in The New York Times Book Review called one of her short stories “simply perfect.”
Super Sleuth was a “Best Book” selection of the American Child Study Association and was serialized on the PBS television program The Reach-Around Gang. A Trick of the Light, Chills Run Down My Spine, and Chills in the Night, her collections of short stories for the fifth grade and up, have all garnered critical acclaim, Trick having been nominated for the Carolyn W. Field Award and for Pennsylvania’s “Keystone to Reading” award, and was a finalist for the American Library Association Booklist’s “Notables.” “Reading to Matthew,” originally published as one story in A Trick of the Light was later published on its own as an illustrated book for intermediate readers, and was named a “Best Book” selection by Young Book Trust of the United Kingdom. Some of her magazine articles and short stories for adults have been reprinted in several anthologies.
Jupiter Press has republished the Super Sleuth series under the books’ original titles and the three short-story collections in two new volumes entitled Night Vision and Night Vision II (2011-2013).
A former college English professor, she taught courses in literature and writing and authored two textbooks on creative writing including Writing Fiction: A Handbook for Creative Writing.
Jackie died on December 31, 2008.
Super Sleuth was a “Best Book” selection of the American Child Study Association and was serialized on the PBS television program The Reach-Around Gang. A Trick of the Light, Chills Run Down My Spine, and Chills in the Night, her collections of short stories for the fifth grade and up, have all garnered critical acclaim, Trick having been nominated for the Carolyn W. Field Award and for Pennsylvania’s “Keystone to Reading” award, and was a finalist for the American Library Association Booklist’s “Notables.” “Reading to Matthew,” originally published as one story in A Trick of the Light was later published on its own as an illustrated book for intermediate readers, and was named a “Best Book” selection by Young Book Trust of the United Kingdom. Some of her magazine articles and short stories for adults have been reprinted in several anthologies.
Jupiter Press has republished the Super Sleuth series under the books’ original titles and the three short-story collections in two new volumes entitled Night Vision and Night Vision II (2011-2013).
A former college English professor, she taught courses in literature and writing and authored two textbooks on creative writing including Writing Fiction: A Handbook for Creative Writing.
Jackie died on December 31, 2008.
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January 30, 2022Chose because there aren't enough Encyclopedia Brown books for me. What a disappointment. The girl has all the brains and does most of the work, the boy takes almost all the credit and most of the reward money, judging by the first two and last one mystery that I read. It's just not right to show a girl letting herself be exploited like that. And no, I'm not reading too much into it.
They're not bad mysteries, but they're all the same. Gather the data to make a logic grid puzzle, eliminate the suspects who don't fit the profile of the criminal, and voila, the only one left is the bad guy. EB depended on some knowledge of history or science or a combination that might include 'formal' logic. I find those kinds of mini-mysteries a lot more fun.
January 2022
They're not bad mysteries, but they're all the same. Gather the data to make a logic grid puzzle, eliminate the suspects who don't fit the profile of the criminal, and voila, the only one left is the bad guy. EB depended on some knowledge of history or science or a combination that might include 'formal' logic. I find those kinds of mini-mysteries a lot more fun.
January 2022
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