The Case of the Bad Seed (Pageturners Detective)

By Anne Schraff

Themes: Hi-Lo, Life lessons, values, identity, good vs.evil, temptation, detective. Themes: Hi-Lo, Life lessons, values, identity, good vs.evil, temptation, detective. Even struggling readers will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562543865
• ISBN13: 9781562543860
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Saddleback Pub
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.3" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12

Customer Reviews

Pulp Education, Bk. 2

Saddleback Educational Publishing has come up with a brilliant concept for solving a very serious problem: the great decline in reading among today's students. Their solution? Make assigned reading materials exciting! Their Pageturners books are short novels, designed to entice even the least motivated students into reading. This confronts both of the major problems with more traditional readers: if they are not mind-numbingly dull, they are excruciatingly didactic, cramming some important "teachings" whether moral, religious, or (these days) politically correct down the throats of children so hard as to turn them off of reading for good. Nikki Peters, currently an executive secretary at a bank, had applied for the job as executive secretary to the founder of the Royal Mattress Company for three reasons: the pay was outstanding, the job was described as "unique and challenging", and she wanted out of her current situation. But Hal Dempsey was REALLY hiring an amateur detective, somebody to worm her way into the life of his wastrel youngest son and provide Hal with the information on which to decide whether to finally give up and disinherit him. Thus begins an interesting variation on the detective story with lots of twists and turns before the end. Plus, for what they are intended to be, reading textbooks, they are wonderful. The fact that students who learn to read better and to love reading from these books may soon find them skimpy fare for pleasure reading is not entirely bad, assuming their teachers quickly move them on to bigger and better things in the school library or the bookstore if necessary. Other detective fiction Pageturners: The Case of the Cursed Chalet (Pageturners), The Case of the Dead Duck (Pageturners), The Case of the Wanted Man (Pageturners), and The Case of the Watery Grave (Pageturners).