Love Charms
Margaret Clark
language
(Random House Australia, Oct. 26, 2011)
Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of another light-hearted whodunit for Independent Readers.Laura's adventurous grandmother sends her a birthday charm to add to her silver bracelet, just as she does each year. This time it's a golden cat and it's gorgeous! But at her birthday sleepover someone steals it. Does the thief belong to the Populars or the Fringes β¦the two competing girl groups at the party?Luckily, Laura's mother is a private investigatorand takes time out from tracking down the One-Eyed One-Armed bandit to help her with ideas.