From: Susan Daugherty <susaninaruba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:50:09 -0700 (PDT)

Siobhan Dowd wrote the above book before she died, which was highly regarde d in the UK and which I enjoyed.   I thought it would be an accessible bo ok for middle schoolers.  One child who solves the mystery seems to have Asperger's or something similar if I remember correctly.  A couple of sib lings (boy and girl) work together to figure out what happened. The Bog Child is also by Dowd.  It takes place in northern Ireland so dea ls with issues of the troubles as well as finding remains of prehistoric pe ople.  It seems to me that you could classify it as a mystery although it is more complex than that. Dowd was a fine writer and worth exploring for her other books as well. Susan Daugherty
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