Sally+Lockhart

=__The Sally Lockhart Series__=

by Philip Pullman
I forget the author but the first book is really good and anyone who likes a good book should read this one even if you don't think you like mysteries. The first book is called __The Ruby in the Smoke__ and it begins in the point of view of a girl named Sally Lockhart whose father dies. Then she mentions something called the Seven Blessings to a man who worked with her father and he literally dies of fright. The book follows Sally as she tries to solve the mystery of her father's death and a bit about her unusual past. -Mara Kissinger,8th grade

(Absolutely love the Sally Lockhart series! - great heroine, Gal Detective, ahead of her time. Read all three but start with the first in the series. Philip Pullman is the author - same guy who wrote The Golden Compass, etc. Great writer! - Mo)