Franklin W Dixon’s Scavenger Hunt Heist is a Hardy Boys mystery for 7 year olds about a school trip to a place called Bear Park.<\/p>\n
Frank Hardy is nine and he’d really rather not meet a bear. So a school outing to Bayport’s Bear Park has him clutching his tummy at breakfast. His eight-year-old brother Joe has a name for it. FOFT, or Fear of Field Trip.<\/p>\n
Mum promises there aren’t any real bears at Bear Park. It’s just a name. (The park ranger never quite says no, which Frank notices straight away.)<\/p>\n
The class is split into teams for a scavenger hunt, with a rhyming clue for each thing they have to find. The prize is a huge pi\u00f1ata shaped like a beehive and stuffed with sweets and toys. The brothers end up on a team with Phil, who’s never without a gadget, and Lolly Sugarman, who’s never without something sugary.<\/p>\n
Then the pi\u00f1ata disappears from the visitors’ cabin. All that’s left is a few shreds of yellow paper. Now the brothers have two things to crack at once. The clues for the hunt and the case of who took the prize.<\/p>\n
It’s book five of the Clue Book series, and it’s a lovely one for joining in. Your reader can solve the rhymes alongside the team (a feather, some mud, a stick shaped like a Y). Frank keeps a notebook with the five Ws in it, and one word at the top of the first page, from something Dad said at breakfast. Proof!<\/p>\n
Just as the case comes together, the story stops and asks your reader for their own list of suspects. So have a pencil handy.<\/p>\n
There’s plenty of silliness too. Lolly makes mud out of fruit punch when there’s no rain. A mud fight follows. The boys have a sword fight with sticks while the girls roll their eyes at them.<\/p>\n
The best bit is Frank. He’s scared the whole way round and he keeps going anyway. That’s worth talking about with a child who worries about new places.<\/p>\n
If they want to go back to where the Clue Books began, try The Video Game Bandit. The brothers are helping at their baseball team’s fund-raiser, where a brand-new games console is the star prize at the auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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