Title: Shoeburn and the Ill Fitting Necklace

Author: Shoeburn Ruffet  

Genre: Children’s, Middle Grade

Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press   

Format: Paperback

Pages: 134

Rating: 3/5 stars

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Shoeburn Ruffet is forced into finding the whereabouts of a business magnate’s lost piece of jewellery. Regina Wendle, the most powerful woman in Welt Foot and the business magnate, will unleash bees, sink phoney submarines, and sabotage helicopter outings until her necklace is found.

Shoeburn will do slightly less exciting stuff to figure out what the necklace’s true purpose is.

The necklace has something to do with him. It has something to do with his father. It may even have something to do with his dead mother, who could or could not be Regina Wendle. Shoeburn does a few heroic things in this story amidst all his blundering, but he’s not really a hero. He just finds himself unable to say ‘no’ in a situation that isn’t about a missing necklace but is instead one in which a necklace goes missing.

He’d just rather not be there at all.

Review:

Thank you to the author for sending me a copy for review.

I don’t read a lot of middle grade but I was pleasantly surprised! The main character was fun and loveable and you were rooting for him the whole time! Shoeburn gets wrapped up in a stolen necklace case and almost gets implemented for the theft of the necklace! There is mystery, discoveries, and a fun cast of characters! I don’t read a lot of middle school books so it as a bit short for me, and I felt like there wasn’t enough development, but at the same time there was enough development for the age level it is written for! If you are looking for a fun middle grade novel then I definitely recommend this!!

Happy reading!