The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency: The Case of the Missing Moonstone (Book 1)

Love it. I supported the kickstarter like two years ago and it was totally worth the wait. It's smart, funny, and I love how many historical places, events and persons it pays homage to.

Love it. I supported the kickstarter like two years ago and it was totally worth the wait. It's smart, funny, and I love how many historical places, events and persons it pays homage to.

Love it. I supported the kickstarter like two years ago and it was totally worth the wait. It's smart, funny, and I love how many historical places, events and persons it pays homage to.

Ada and Mary form a detective agency . A wonderful story about friendship and mystery.

I know too much about the real people to overlook the effort to bring them together.

Library copy

Wonderful!

Captivating from the beginning, this middle grade novel is mystery, historical fiction, and girl power all wrapped up together. Featuring a pair of strong female leads, this novel shows how very far we have come in the last one hundred years. Stratford has very cleverly taken two very well known

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women and used a little creative license to imagine what it would have been like if Ada Byron, world's first computer programmer, and Mary Godwin, author of the world's first science fiction novel, had been friends. What would they have done together? Obviously create a clandestine detective agency! The language in this novel is so lovely and the constant push against the norms of expected female behaviour of the early 1800s demonstrates how girls have the ability to be more than society dictates. A strong novel for all of your middle graders.

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Fun romp with a reimagined childhood for an excellent cast of Romantic era authors and thinkers -- while it's not a complex read, I'm glad to have soemthing to recommend for fans of Enola Holmes. Between this and Sherlock, Lupin and Me, I'm glad to see a new crop of interesting kid detectives.