The Great Cake Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith *****

Are you a fan of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency? DO you have a child reading to move up to chapter books? The Great Cake Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith is the book for you! This short (less than 100 pages) book is perfect for young readers. Few readers of the adult version of Precious Ramotswe's detective adventures will be surprised by how well the stories work for primary school readers.

This story is about a thief stealing food at the local primary school. An unpopular boy is accused, but young Precious solves the mystery, identifies the real culprit, and clears the wrongly accused boy.

As with the adult version, the book includes lots of good advice.

But just because somebody has lots of sweets does not mean that he has stolen them. One thing, you see, does not always lead to another. That is something that all detectives learn very early in their career.

“Pay no attention to them,” Precious said. “They can think what they like.” She knew, though, that it was not that simple. All of us worry about what other people think, even if we do not have to. It was easy to tell somebody to ignore that sort of thing; it was much harder to put such advice into practice.

A perfect first chapter book.

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