| International Standard Book Number |
9798217030187 epub
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217030163 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217030170 library binding
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| Personal Name |
Emery, Kate, author.
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| Title Statement |
The dysfunctional family's guide to murder / Kate Emery.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
296 pages ; 22 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
14-year-old Ruth was expecting a few fights on her family's vacation at their remote farmhouse. But she wasn't expecting a murder. And "death by typewriter" wasn't quite how she thought her step-grandmother, GG, would meet her end. As an avid reader of mystery novels, Ruth is more than a little excited to have a real mystery to solve. (Though she's sad about GG. Obviously.) And she's read enough Agatha Christie that catching a killer should be a breeze... right? With her annoyingly hot sort-of-cousin, Dylan, as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon begins to uncover long-buried family secrets, finding that each of her relatives -- her dad; her aunts and their partners; even, in the interest of fairness, Dylan and herself -- had reasons to want GG gone. But are any of them capable of murder? As tensions rise with everyone stuck in the house together, Ruth will have to dig deep to find out... before the killer strikes again.
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| Summary, Etc. |
When her step-grandmother dies during a family vacation, fourteen-year-old, mystery-loving Ruth gets her dream chance to solve a real-life murder -- only to discover that every relative might be a suspect.
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| Target Audience Note |
Grades 10-12 Alfred A. Knopf.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dysfunctional families Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family secrets Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vacations Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Child detectives Juvenile fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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