The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
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Published
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780385343497, 0385343493
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.6, 16 Points
Lexile measure
960

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General Note
Includes a reader's guide with discussion questions (pages [377]-385) and an excerpt from the author's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.
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"It is the summer of 1950 - and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. 'I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.' To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story - of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder - but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse."--Publisher's description.
Target Audience
960L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.6,16,136784.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bradley, A. (2010). The sweetness at the bottom of the pie (Bantam Books trade paperback edition.). Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bradley, Alan, 1938-. 2010. The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie. Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bradley, Alan, 1938-. The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie Bantam Books trade paperback edition., Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010.

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