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The Parker Inheritance
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“Really, really enjoyed this book! I always love a good puzzle mystery and my heart melts for book-loving preteens. This book was great in that it not only had a fun buried treasure mystery but also friendship evolution between Candice and Brandon, Candice's reckoning with her parent's relationship, and racial tensions in the history as well as current day. Johnson weaves the main mystery with plot-filling flashbacks of the key players in the mystery that give a good historical fiction vibe too. Overall, very much enjoyed (Cherise Boothe had awesome narration as well, the perfect voicing of young character without infantilizing her).”
Kimi,
Buttonwood Books and Toys
The Westing Game meets The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 in a stirring mystery of past and present, as two kids search for a place in their families, city, and country. The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller. When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and failed. But now Candice has another chance. So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues in the letter. The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love; and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the summer ends?
Varian Johnson is the author of five novels, including THE GREAT GREENE HEIST, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2014, and a Texas Library Association Lone Star List selection; and SAVING MADDIE. He lives with his wife and daughters near Austin, Texas. Please visit his website at www.varianjohnson.com or follow him on Twitter at @varianjohnson.
Cherise Boothe, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actress whose work spans theater, film, television, animation, video games, and audiobook narration. Whether it’s performing onstage as an original cast member in Lynn Nottage’s first Pulitzer Prize–winning play, Ruined, or portraying a school teacher in the hit TV show Rizzoli & Isles, Ms. Boothe loves the various outlets afforded her as a storyteller. She holds an MFA from NYU–Tisch’s Graduate Acting program.
