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The Books

1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

2. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

3. A Red Herring Without Mustard

4. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.

For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”



Once Completed Move to the next book in the series: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie CHALLENGE

You Choose the level

LEVEL 1:
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, however you must completed level 2 or 3 to continue. Just put date originally read)

LEVEL 2:
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)
2. Read a book with a Pie or dessert on the cover
3. Read a book with a Mostly Green Cover

LEVEL 3 :
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)
2. Read a book with a Pie or dessert on the cover
3. Read a book with a Mostly Green Cover
4. Spellout the THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE using Titles, Authors name, Series name, or Name of Character. ( You may use the same book 4 times, one for each option)

READERS

Abbie
Karen KK
Louise

Abbie's The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

LEVEL 3 :
1. Read the Book
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

9/25

2. Read a book with a Pie or dessert on the cover

3. Read a book with a Mostly Green Cover
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee 11/11


4. Spellout the THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE using Titles, Authors name, Series name, or Name of Character.

T:The Bus on Thursday 9/29
H: Hideaway10/5
E: Eden 10/17

S: Star Wars: Rogue One 9/28
W: Lucie Whitehouse, Before We Met 10/19
E:Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado 10/20
E: Elisa Carbone, Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
T: The Chill 10/9
N: Nnedi Okorafor, Binti 10/2
E: Ellery Queen, Terror Town 11/17
S: Something Wicked This Way Comes 10/17
S: Sarah Gailey, River of Teeth 10/8

A: A Good Marriage 10/1
T: The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas 10/12

T: The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death 10/14
H: Hell House 10/6
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B:Baby Teeth 9/26
O: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories 10/29
T: The Loop 10/19
T: The Loop 10/19
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M:Mike Vasich, Loki 9/29

O: Outbreak 11/10
F: Patti Frazee, Cirkus 10/21

T:The Shadows 10/23
H: Dune, Dune 10/18
E: (Essex Witch Museum Mystery #1), Strange Magic 11/30

P: Sarah Pinborough, Dead to Her 10/8
I: The Invited 10/27
E: E.G. Scott, The Woman Inside 11/5

COMPLETE

LEVEL 2:
✔1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Read 2/7/20

✔2. Read a book with a Pie or dessert on the cover
/Valerie Wilson Wesley
Read 11/23/20 2☆

✔3. Read a book with a Mostly Green Cover
/Natasha Pulley 9/22/20 2.75☆

Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What about Porson’s charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?



Once Completed Move to the next book in the series: A Red Herring Without Mustard

THE CHALLENGE

You Choose the level

LEVEL 1:
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, however you must completed level 2 or 3 to continue. Just put date originally read)

LEVEL 2:
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)
2. Read a book with a Bone on the cover
3. Read a book with a Mostly Purple Cover

LEVEL 3 :
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)
2. Read a book with a Bone on the cover
3. Read a book with a Mostly Purple Cover
4. Spellout the THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMANS BAG using Titles, Authors name, Series name, or Name of Character. ( You may use the same book 4 times, one for each option)

READERS

Abbie
Karen

Abbie's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

LEVEL 3 :

1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

10/24

2. Read a book with a Bone on the cover
Strange Magic

10/30

3. Read a book with a Mostly Purple Cover

4. Spellout

T: Pamela D. Toler, Women Warriors: An Unexpected History 12/14
H
E:Elisa Carbone

W: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 10/27
E
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D: Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences 10/28

T
H
A
T: The Fisherman 11/18

S
T: Terror Town 11/17
R: Robin Cook, Outbreak 11/11
I: The Invited 10/27
N: The Next Together series, The Last Beginning 10/25
G
S: The Song of Achilles 11/19

T: The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple 11/10
H
E : E.G. Scott, The Woman Inside 11/8

H
A: Amina Cain, Indelicacy
N: Neal Shusterman, Scythe 11/9
G: Tess Gerritsen, John Doe 10/30
M: Maika Moulite, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
A: A Living Nightmare 11/17
N: B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories 11/29
S: Dan Simmons, The Terror 11/4

B
A: A.J. Aalto, Touched 11/9
G: The God of Small Things 10/30

Sweetness at the bottom of the pie - LEVEL 3 :
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)

Date Read: 7/24

2. Read a book with a Pie or dessert on the cover

Date Read: 11/27

3. Read a book with a Mostly Green Cover
10/9

4. Spellout the THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE using Titles, Authors name, Series name, or Name of Character. ( You may use the same book 4 times, one for each option)

T - The Call of the Wild 10/13
H - The Last Brother (Harry) 11/4
E - Wife by Wednesday(Sam Elliott) 11/5

S - Sophia, Princess Among Beasts 10/10
W - Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog 10/19
E - Married by Monday (Eliza) 11/6
E - Elyssa Patrick, Stay With Me 11/7
T - The Second Wife 10/18
N - The Second Wife (Natalie) 10/18
E - Terah Edun; Sworn to Transfer 1/2
S - Sophia, Princess Among Beasts (Sophia) 10/10
S - The Call of the Wild (Spitz) 10/13

A - Can't Help Falling in Love by Bella Andre 10/14
T - Can't Help Falling in Love (The Sullivans) 10/14

T - Syndrome by Thomas Hoover 10/16
H - Can't Help Falling in Love (Megan Harris) 10/14
E

B - Sarah Butler; Jack & Bet 10/31
O - To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel) 10/19
T - To Say Nothing of the Dog 10/19
T - The Law Is a Lady 11/8
O - Omega 10/23
M - Sue Moorcroft, Just for the Holidays 10/27

O - Melting Her Heart (Once Upon a Romance) 11/1
F - Rebecca Fleet, The Second Wife 10/18

T - The Realm of You 10/29
H - Charlie N. Holmberg, The Plastic Magician 10/21
E - The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza (Elena) 12/24

P - James Patterson; Sophia, Princess Among Beasts 10/10
I - Irresistible In Love 11/18
E - Elizabeth Peters; The Mummy Case 12/15

LEVEL 3 : THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMANS BAG
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read)

2. Read a book with a Bone on the cover

3. Read a book with a Mostly Purple Cover

4. Spellout the THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMANS BAG using Titles, Authors name, Series name, or Name of Character. ( You may use the same book 4 times, one for each option)

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Sue's The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

LEVEL 2:
1. Read the Book (If you have read the book in the past, you may still count as read, Just put date originally read) - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley - 4/25/2021 (reread) ~5*
2. Read a book with a Pie or dessert on the cover -Pie by Sarah Weeks - 4/21/2021 ~3*
3. Read a book with a Mostly Green Cover - Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - 5/3/2021 ~4*



Completed 5/3/2021