Product Description

Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane. Ingrid’s dad’s job is injeopardy, but he won’t explain why. Ingrid’s brother, Ty, is getting reallybuff, but the acne on his back makes Ingrid wonder if there’s more to hisphysical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid’s beloved soccercoach is replaced by the icy Julia LeCaine, who seems to have another agendaaltogether, and at rehearsals for The Wizard of Oz, Ingrid seessome suspicious goings-on at Echo Falls High.

True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing aroundto find out who’s really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning,en route to MathFest—an oxymoron if she’s ever heard one—Ingrid iskidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. If she escapes, will anyone believeher story?

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #611178 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-20
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8-Ingrid Levin-Hill, the eighth-grade Sherlock Holmes lover introduced in Down the Rabbit Hole (HarperCollins, 2005), is back for another adventure. She quotes her hero quite often as she tries to sort out details that she observes around her. In trying to figure out why her brother is so moody, why her dad is in jeopardy of losing his job, and why her grandfather's property is so valuable, the teen stumbles upon some of her town's secrets. Then, when she is kidnapped but is able to escape, she can't get anyone to believe her. This is a fast-paced mystery with well-defined characters and a plausible plotline and ending. Although a few references are made to the earlier book, this enjoyable story stands on its own.-Denise Moore, O'Gorman Junior High School, Sioux Falls, SD
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From AudioFile
Growing up is hard, especially when some people are trying to kill you. Narrator Colleen Delany perfectly affects the voice of eighth-grade Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill, who copes with raging hormones, banal schoolwork, and a family strained by pressures both inside the home and out. A steroid-pushing ring is operating in Echo Falls, and Ingrid must find out who are involved and stop them before her brother becomes involved. Escape from an attempted kidnapping is a particularly tension-filled episode, wonderfully portrayed by Delany. Juggling both young and old voices, she shines in scenes between Ingrid, her brother, and her grumpy but lovable Grampy. R.O. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Booklist
*Starred Review* Gr. 6-9. The second entry in the Echo Falls Mystery series, as successful as its predecessor, starts with puzzling questions that spring right from Ingrid Levin-Hill's own life: Why is her football-mad older brother suddenly so much stronger, and why has her father been so tense lately? The plot unfolds slowly at first, but Abrahams' exceptional overlay of detail, especially descriptions of the particular stresses and the goofy occurrences that mark Ingrid's experiences as an eighth-grader, makes the story very convincing as the action builds. Ingrid discovers anabolic steroids are behind her brother's improved performance and new aggressiveness (and also behind some of the mysterious behavior of various people in her town), but just as she is about to do something with her knowledge, she is kidnapped. She escapes, but police don't believe her story, and she has to set up her own sting to prove she is telling the truth. A timely issue gives this mystery a "ripped from the headlines" flavor, but the real kick for readers comes from a believable eighth-grade heroine's investigation of a high-school scandal. Connie Fletcher
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Customer Reviews

behind the curtain- peter abrahams
Behind the curtain was an okay novel. I think that the author wrote too much about ingrid's brother ty, that he did on the actual story. I think that the ending of this book was much more clever and intruiging that the first one, but overall, the whole story was ok. If you loved down the rabbit hole, you would probably like behind the curtain.