Genre Juvenile Fiction. Page - 12
There are burglaries in the otherwise peaceful jungle. The burglaries are occuring at night. Though no valuables are stolen, mysteriously the earthen 'lion' dolls from the houses are found to be broken outside the burgled houses! The King Lion orders investigation into the mystery, and Chintoo, the Monkey Detective, is assigned the job. Could he unravel the mystery?
Brianna Smith is just an ordinary seventeen-year-old girl, but she has a secret. No one in her school knows, but she wasn't sick sophmore year. Will she be able to face her family, her friends, even her boyfriend, and tell them what really happened? Or will she just hide it from everyone, including the judge?
This charming little book was expressly written for younger children, aged about 11 or 12. There's plenty in the book for children of that age to enjoy, but older children might be a bit impatient.
Susan and her family live in London, but she has a brother of ten years old who has a nasty chronic illness, and is bed-ridden. His family are advised to take him for the rest of the winter to a warmer climate, so his mother takes him to Algiers. During this interlude Susan is to go to stay with a great-aunt who lives at Ramsgate, a small town by the sea in the eastern part of Kent, the county of England to the south-east of London.
There are several other girls staying with the aunt, two of them a bit older than Susan, grown-up, almost, while Sophia Jane is Susan's age. Sophia Jane appears to have what we would now call behavioural problems, but during the course of the book we learn to see her in a better light, and it is Susan who can be not altogether excellent.
Both little girls learn a lot about life from each other.
Intertwined with the story are the affairs of a charming French brother and sister.