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Poison Most Vial: A Mystery Hardcover – April 1, 2012

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Murder in the lab! The famous forensic scientist Dr. Ramachandran is stone-cold dead, and Ruby Rose’s father is the prime suspect. It’s one more reason for Ruby to hate the Gardens, the funky urban neighborhood to which she has been transplanted. Wise but shy, artistic but an outsider, Ruby must marshal everything and everyone she can to help solve the mystery and prove her father didn’t poison his boss. Everyone? The list isn’t too long: there’s T. Rex, Ruby’s big, goofy but goodhearted friend; maybe those other two weird kids from class; and that mysterious old lady in the apartment upstairs, who seems to know a lot about chemistry . . . which could come in very handy.
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“Carey mixes toxic chemistry and logic problems in his second middle-grade mystery to good, if not great effect. Budding chemists and crime-scene investigators will especially enjoy this science whodunit.”
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VOYA Top Shelf for Middle School Readers 2012 list

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Benedict Carey is a science reporter for the New York Times who covers such topics as neuroscience, genetics, and personality. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in the New York City area.

Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: HL610L (What's this?)

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (April 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419700316
ISBN-13: 978-1419700316
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,528,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9699 in Children's Mystery, Detective, & Spy

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An enjoyable story with a good, strong female lead. A nice introduction to mysteries for younger readers with higher reading levels.

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Goose Girl

Cheers for a Young Agatha Christie!

March 13, 2012

Format: Hardcover

Ruby Rose's father works in the great DeWitt forensics lab as a janitor. He's been accused of killing the great forensic scientist, Dr. Ramachandran in the lab. But Ruby knows he didn't do it, he had no reason to do it. She just has to prove it. And to prove it, she needs the help of her friend Rex. And Rex suggests the old lady in the window. She's rumored to have been famous for working with chemicals or something. But he's scared of her, he's heard from "The Minister of Information" or Jimmy Woods, that she has a glass eye and he's scared if she sneezes it'll come out. There's a very comical scene when they are visiting the woman, Mrs. Whitmore, and she sneezes. Rex, still fearing the glass eye turns the coffee table over and runs to the other side of the window while Ruby yells at him and Mrs. Whitmore just looks on in shock.

Between trying to save her father and finding clues to his innocence, Ruby reminisces about her life in Arkansas and the best friend she left behind. She's missing the country and the wide open spaces. The city is crowded and unfamiliar and dangerous. And her best friend hasn't emailed her. She misses her old life, her old friend, the old way of doing things. But, Ruby doesn't dwell on it. If anything, I don't think she dwells on her situation enough. Her father could go to jail, he's drinking too much, they have no income since he lost his job and she's far from what she considers home. She feels that everywhere is strange and that she doesn't belong. And she's right when it comes to her investigating the crime. But she's smart, too, and in investigating the crime, she begins to learn more about herself, her surroundings and the people that are in her daily life.

There are some very clever ways that Mrs. Whitmore helps Ruby and Rex and by extension her friends figure out what they need to free her father. And in return Mrs. Whitmore gains a sense of something more. And Ruby and Rex make two new friends that are living on the other side of the world from the projects where they live. It's a great mystery and fun reading about Ruby and Rex and Mrs. Whitmore.

This is a very clean read and great for Middle Grade and up. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I received a review a review copy of this from the publisher Amulet through Net Galley free of charge. This did not affect my review in any way.
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ReadingCorner

Cute Middle Grade Mystery

May 17, 2012

Format: Hardcover

Poison Most Vial is a classic young sleuths mystery that brings out the nerdy detective in the best of us. Ruby and Rex are determined to find who really killed Dr. Ramachandran and clear her father's name. But these two are lacking in experience so how in the world are they going to solve a mystery that's too confounding for even the police? And what are they going to do to disprove the clear evidence against her father? Rex and Ruby will find that things are not always as they seem and help can come from unexpected places.

Rex and Ruby are pretty average elementary students--they're even placed with "The Regulars" at the DeWitt Lab School. They live in the projects and walk home from school together. Their slightly odd friendship fits both of their personalities and they're probably the last pair you would expect to solve a murder case! I liked their back-and-forth banter and how their slightly odd personalities seemed to complement each other. I don't think that anyone could NOT like Ruby. She has quirky little OCD habits like counting her steps (three plus one) and she's sharp. Both of them appeal to the nerdy kid in all of us.

The story itself, while not the most fast-paced murder mystery, is steeped in authentic situations where our young sleuths narrowly escape danger (although luckily for them, the danger is never TOO dangerous). The help that they receive from the elusive Mrs. Whitmore (aka The Window Lady) helps them more than they ever expected it to and she gives us all little science lessons along the way.

While I won't say this is my personal favorite read of the year, I think that it will hold a lot of appeal for the young audience at which it is aimed. If you've got a late elementary reader looking for a mystery with a little nerdy science thrown in (even if they don't ask for that second part--sometimes you just know), then Poison Most Vial is a great go-to book.

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M. Schemanski

9-13 year old mystery

March 31, 2012

Format: Hardcover

Dr. Ramachandran is a famous forensic scientist and teacher at DeWitt Polytechnic University and has been found dead from poisoning. Ruby Rose attends Dewitt Lab School which is connected to the university. Her father is a janitor at the university.
Murdered in his office, the prime suspect is Ruby's Father, Mr. Rose. Feeling that police aren't doing anything to solve the case, Ruby and her friends try to piece it together with the help of a 70 year old recluse from their apartment building.
Very thorough investigation by the kids and the Window Woman of the case. The story line kept you reading and excited to find out what would happen. Geared toward 9-13 year olds I think that they will enjoy this book.
I struggled to find an age for Ruby, and what grade she was in. The Dewitt Lab School didn't make a lot of sense to me that it was connected to the university but was it a high school or grade school? I needed a bit more early on information to have the setting lined up for me to visualize. I think if the staging for the story could be made plainer this would be a five star book, but with my confusion I am giving it a 4.
I received a copy of this book from Abrams books in exchange for an honest review.

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