Middle school is hard. Solving cases for the FBI is even harder. Doing both at the same time—well that’s just absurd. But that doesn’t stop Florian and Margaret! Get to know the only kids on the FBI Director’s speed dial—and several international criminals’ most wanted lists—in this adventurous series that School Library Journal says combines “elements of Alex Rider, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes.” Up above you can get a peek at the new covers that will be available in Spring 2025.
Florian Bates and his best friend Margaret Campbell use TOAST (The Theory of All Small Things) to solve a baffling mystery of art stolen from the National Gallery. Along the way they became special consultants for the FBI and are plunged into a world of international intrigue in this Edgar-nominated series starter was featured on twlevestate award lists. School Library Connection says that it, "Will grab readers from the first page with its witty characters and non-stop action."
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Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award, VANISHED brings back Florian and Margaret as covert consultants for the FBI's hush hush Special Projects team. In this case, a young cellist disappears during intermission at the Kennedy Center and the heroes follow the mystery all the way to the White House. In its starred-review, Kirkus Reviews called it "A splendid whodunit: cerebral, exhilarating, low in violence, methodical in construction and occasionally hilarious."
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Vanished! won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best Juvenile Book by the Mystery Writers of America. It was a huge deal for me and my family. Here's my acceptance speech.
Florian and BFF Margaret are back for their third adventure as they try to uncover a spy ring and clear the good name of Marcus, their friend and FBI handler, in a mystery that Kirkus Reviews calls "A top-shelf test of courage, friendship, and ingenuity." Along the way they try to evade a suspicious FBI agent, decipher a secret code that has been used for years to pass secrets in the open and escape from a vault underneath the Library of Congress.
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