Eddie Red Undercover Book
Eddie Red Undercover Book
Eddie Red Undercover Book
Marcia Wells,Marcos Calo | 256 pages | 01 Jun 2015 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780544439405 | English | Boston, MA, United States
Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile (Marcia Wells) | squinklebooks
Skip to Content. There's considerable discussion of police procedures, including how suspect sketches are created and surveillance techniques.
The action is set partly in Manhattan's "Museum Mile," so there's information about some of the art found in different New York museums, as well
as mentions a few artists, including Picasso and Monet, and descriptions of a couple of their pieces.
At the end of the book, there's a two-page, step-by-step "How to Draw Faces" art lesson by "Eddie Red. More can be accomplished through
teamwork than by working alone. It's gratifying to discover a special skill and then use it for a good cause. Don't be afraid to ask for help from
adults. Attaining big goals often involves both perseverance and personal sacrifice. Eddie is doggedly determined to solve the mystery at the center
of the book and goes to great lengths to gather clues, using mostly his ingenuity and great powers of observation.
Though he often gets frustrated by the behavior of Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile adults, or their unwillingness to listen to his
ideas, he's unfailingly polite to those around him. On the negative side, he doesn't always follow the suggestions of his superiors, which often leads
to trouble. The book begins with an episode in which our hero, Edmund, sees a man running out of an alley carrying a bloody knife after a scuffle
of some sort.
Later, Eddie is threatened, duct-taped to a drainpipe, and held at gunpoint by a criminal. In the same episode, a detective is shot near Eddie, who
applies pressure to the bloody wound. Earlier, Eddie kicks the detective in the groin as part of his self-defense class but that's mainly played for
laughs. Parents and caregivers: Set limits for violence and more with Plus. Parents need to Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile that
Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile is a taut, often funny mystery about an African-American sixth grader who becomes embroiled
in a complex case involving art thieves.
There's some violence, including one graphic shooting and Eddie being duct-taped to a drainpipe by a criminal, but it's a small part of the story.
The book does not talk down to its target audience; in fact, it includes a fair amount of complicated vocabulary, unexplained mentions of ADHD
and OCD and the slang "meds," as well as discussions of artists and New York museums. Eddie's race does not factor into the story in any
significant way, but it's notable because of the relative rarity of having the main character in this type of book be a person of color.
This is the first book in the Eddie Red series. Join now. Add your rating. When the New York City police discover his talent, they enlist him as an
afterschool and weekend undercover observer and sketch artist to help solve a baffling series of thefts in Manhattan museums.
In return, "Eddie Red, as the lead detective dubs him, hopes to earn enough money to attend a prestigious private school his family could not
otherwise afford. He works and clashes with a hard-boiled detective who doesn't really want Eddie on the case. Meanwhile, Eddie gets help from
his brainy and obsessive friend Jonah as they try to crack the mystery together.
The world of fine art and New York museums is perhaps a slightly odd choice as a setting for middle-grade novel, but Wells manages to make it
seem quite interesting and exciting. Young readers will definitely learn a few things about art -- and the intricacies of police work Eddie Red
Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile along the way.
One complaint: The solution to one of the primary mysteries of the book is almost incomprehensible, even if you are chess fanatic.
That's the only downer in an otherwise fine book. Families can talk about mysteries. What makes a good one? Eddie has a photographic memory
and is a skilled artist. If you got involved in a mystery, what special skill do you have that might help solve it?
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