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Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion: The Questioneers Book #3 Kindle Edition
Iggy Peck is an architect at his very core: When he’s not making houses out of food, his head is up in the clouds, dreaming of design. So he’s totally blown away when Ada Twist’s Aunt Bernice inherits an old house from ice-cream mogul Herbert Sherbert that is filled with countless rooms from all his favorite architectural periods. But something’s not quite right . . . Everyone says the house is haunted, and it seems that a number of priceless antiques—which were supposed to help Aunt Bernice pay for the house’s upkeep—have gone missing. If they can’t find those antiques, Aunt Bernice might lose the house forever. It will take all of Iggy’s knowledge of architecture and the help of the other Questioneers—Rosie Revere, Ada Twist, and Sofia Valdez—to solve the mystery and find the treasure!
- Reading age1 - 12 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - 6
- PublisherAmulet Books
- Publication dateMay 12, 2020
- ISBN-13978-1419736926
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About the Author
Andrea Beaty was raised in southern Illinois in a town so small that she knew everybody and their pets. She grew up loving Nancy Drew and then eventually progressed to Agatha Christie books and the classics. Her secret ambition is to star in a Broadway musical, and she is often tempted to break into song and dance at very odd moments.
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- ASIN : B07WWJNX4M
- Publisher : Amulet Books; Illustrated edition (May 12, 2020)
- Publication date : May 12, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 22236 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 150 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #210,794 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #34 in Children's Technology Fiction
- #310 in Children's Chapter Books (Kindle Store)
- #928 in Children's Humorous Literature
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The characters in Andrea's humorous picture books and novels are smart, funny, and unapologetic in their passion. They are doers. Curiosity, creativity, innovation and persistence are recurring themes in her work.
From architecture-obsessed IGGY PECK, ARCHITECT to the inventive ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER to the irrepressible magician in training, Robbie Darko (DORKO THE MAGNIFICENT). And then there is the fiercely funny Ted (DOCTOR TED, FIREFIGHTER TED, ARTIST TED) who can't be stopped when he puts his mind to something.
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Warning: this review contains mild spoilers.
First off, this is a very compelling "haunted house" story, even outside of the framework of the Questioneers. As a stand-alone book with the same plot but generic characters, it would still be a very good read! The plot is clever and it's mysterious enough that it was still interesting for the adults. Overall it was very engaging - all of us wanted to keep reading (and did) until we finished it.
If you are familiar with the rest of the series you can probably guess from the outset that there is not actually anything supernatural in this book and that every "ghost" and "haunting" has a completely naturalistic explanation. Ada, Rosie, and Sophia are a great supporting cast and bring the characteristics we know and love about them (and we are hoping to learn more about Sophia in October's Questioneers release).
Iggy's love of architecture is played very well here. All throughout the house he describes the different period architecture of each room. The limit here is that it still needs to be enjoyable for kids to read and a whole paragraph about wainscotting isn't that, so no, your kids aren't going to finish this book and be able to identify a pilaster cap and that's fine. But there's enough that if you really wanted you could use this as a jumping off point for an architecture themed coloring book and be able to point out some things that Iggy saw.
So far we have clear good marks for plot and character development!
Lastly, the issue that some may find problematic but that we found pertinent and interesting: the role of the 1918 Flu. A central plot point in this book is the loss of a character's young daughter to the flu. There is a great line in this book, quoted by another reviewer to substantiate a 1-star review. This quote is part of the reason that we gave this book 5 stars:
"'People can die from the flu, but it's not as common,' said Ada, 'because scientists invented new medicines and vaccines. People used to die of all kinds of diseases like measles and flu. Vaccines changed that. Mr. Mc Clintock at the library said that millions of people around the world died from flue in 1918. MILLIONS!'"
This was the starting point for a great conversation that began when the 4.5 year old asked what measles were. It gave us a chance to explain that there are lots of different kinds of illnesses in the world, but for many of them, we don't really have to worry about them anymore because scientists have come up with vaccines and cures (like Ada says). This was a perfect transition to then talk about the current pandemic, and that one reason that it's still a problem is because we DON'T have a cure or vaccine yet. Then we talked about the fact that scientists are working on them right now, which led to a question about what Ada would do and pretty much opened up a whole big conversation that we put down the book for awhile to have.
A note: you can imagine, again based on the author's previous books, that the talk about disease and death in this book was presented in an age appropriate way. I suppose if you haven't had any conversations about either of those things with your kids then you might want to know that going in so you can plan accordingly! But contrary to some others, we found the treatment of those topics in this book to be very much on point.
Overall, our favorite story out of all the Questioneers books! 5 stars all the way :)
I loved this story! I was looking for one with hope, and this one popped up in my search! Ada’s Aunt Bernice inherits Herbert Sherbert’s house. He was once the ice cream king and a millionaire. The house used to be incredible, but now it’s run down. Nobody’s done maitenance for years. That means it’s going to take LOTS of MONEY to keep it, and to repair it. Aunt Bernice doesn’t have that kind of money, but she hopes to find Herbert’s collection of antique furniture. If she does, she can sell it and use the money to repair/keep the house. I’ll tell you there’s a happy ending thanks to the questioneers, but you’ll have to read it for yourself!
PS – There’s Back Matter! A tiny bit on subjects that come up in the book like art noveau, art deco, cats with different eye colors, making ice cream, the science behind it at the molecular level, and finally a short bio about Ida Wells.
PPS – Even the end papers are fun, but you’ll have to get the book to see why.