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Best Books for Kids » Ages 9-12

The Guggenheim Mystery by Robin Stevens & Siobhan Dowd
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The Guggenheim Mystery

by Robin Stevens & Siobhan Dowd

The Guggenheim Mystery is the perfect book for a tween-aged child. The characters are charming, the plot excellent, and at the end of it, even though it’s not part of the book per se, your child will be googling “Cezanne” and “stolen painting.”  In short, it’s a book that’s not only gripping, but you’ll learn a lot from—not least about the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

The book was based on the characters invented by Siobhan Dowd but written by Robin Stevens, as she explained in her interview with us on the best kid detective books.

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This is a lovely audiobook for a 9-11 year old child. As the title suggests, it’s a mystery set at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, with the kids finding out who committed the crime.

Narrator: Jason Forbes

Length: 5 hours and 40 minutes

Ages 9-11

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The book, according to the author

Siobhan was really sick when she wrote the The London Eye Mystery, and she died only a couple of weeks after it was first published, which is just incredibly sad.

She left behind the title of the second book in the series, The Guggenheim Mystery. Her estate came to me about four years ago now, asking if I’d be interested in carrying on Ted’s story and writing the story to go with the title that she’d already come up with. That’s how I came to write The Guggenheim Mystery for Siobhan.

Because I loved Ted so much, I had to say yes. But then it was a long process of reading and reading and re-reading that book to get into the world Siobhan had created. I never got bored of The London Eye Mystery—every time I read it, I liked Siobhan more as a person as well as a writer. I have a special place in my heart for Ted Spark.

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