hailey

8 years ago

i love it so much

nflchampion36

8 years ago

Amazing!

AidanB

8 years ago

The reviews made me want to read this book. It sounds very interesting. I read the long comment on the book and it sounds amazing. I like reading good mystery books on my own time so i will add this to my list of what to read next.

alex.R

8 years ago

i love girl detictiv girl power

agentdiamond313

8 years ago

Hopefully its fun!!

jackfruit7

8 years ago

This book is funny and awesome! I really like this book! It made me stay up to midnight reading! 5 sars, awesome!

foodie11

8 years ago

This book looks really good!

tim0706

8 years ago

This books is awesome and usually I don't get books that make me stay up till midnight but this book right from the start has hooked me into the book. This author is a very clever writer of drawing your attention and making you keep thinking of what is going to happen next. This book has gave me a big laugh and also is a very cool mystery book. Usually mystery books start with a problem and ends with a solution but this book has multiple mysteries and multiple solutions leaving you with a thought of what will happen next in the next book. I thought the author did a really good job of writing this amazing book. The book is about this peculiar 11 year old girl named Friday Barnes who only gets to watch TV when her uncle is here. One day Friday and her Uncle were talking and Friday found out you can get a $50,000 reward if you find the imposter of the diamond. The next day, Friday does not go to school and goes to the bank instead to find out who stole the diamond and with evidence from surveillance cameras, she figures who it is. After receiving $50,000, she plans to go to the most expensive boarding school, Highcrest. She gets hit by a truck and gets hurt. She wakes up in a room with a teacher. Then, she goes back to her dorm room and find a girl name Melanie. She also meets a handsome/smart boy name Ian Wainscott who sabotages Friday for having a better IQ. After a while of solving crimes/mysteries of stolen homework, missing assignments, stolen clocks, and other mysteries, she has a reward from the Headmaster to find info of the Swamp Beast YETI!!! Then, Friday finds who it is and the accuses a teacher. Then at the end of the story the author does a surprising thing he leaves the book with a TO BE CONTINUED... of Friday being arrested by the police. The author just leaves you with a cliffhanger that makes you really mad but happy for the next sequel. Like I personally like and hate cliffhangers since they leave you thinking but you will have to wait a long time to know what really does happen. I thought this was a really really extremely AWESOME book and now this book has changed my FAVORITE BOOK and FAVORITE AUTHOR place to this Author and this Book Series. I mean will these 2 people (Ina and Friday) who are pretending to be enemies that are secretly in love with each other express a relationship? Will Friday get arrested? Will Ian and Friday stop being fake nemesis? I want to read the 2nd book so bad that I wish there were time machines and I can go to the future to read it. I give this book a 130% A++++ and a 10 star out of 5 stars. I recommend this book for and age of around 8-14 around the elementary school and middle school kid but I would also recommend this amazing, fabulous book to everyone from kids to teen to young adults to adults. This book will give you a great and amazing laugh and it will bring your spirit up. This book is for anyone who loves funny books (like me), who loves great, great mystery books (again like me), or who likes a very interesting story with a well thickened detailed plot (also like me). This is a great realistic fiction book and you will never forget this book. I will suggest you try to be like a Detective Hercule Poirot and try to solve the mysteries yourself before she solves it and who did the crime to have some fun while reading this book...Now find a cozy chair a bed to relax on and you shall start reading this fabulous amazing book, Friday Barnes, Girl Detective, By R. A. Spratt.

felicisowl

8 years ago

Um, hi.. First of all, I want to say that I really liked your review! I liked how it was bursting with detail - it was actually a really exciting review, and I enjoyed reading it! I know this happened a long time ago, and you probably don't remember it, but I'm sorry for being rude to you on the "Year of the Book" page. I think I misunderstood your comment, so I take my comment back - I respect your opinion.. so, I don't really want to be on bad terms :) I can see that you really like books too, so.. friends? Okay, this is awkward, I'm just going to press the "Post" button now..

bibliophile

8 years ago

YOU"RE BACKK!!!! Long time no talk in DOGO @tim0706!!!! Nice review... you seriously covered all different aspects... and yeah... i completely agree with everything you say!

tim0706

8 years ago

Yeah long time no talk.. your review is awesome and so descriptive!!!! Loved it.

maddyp18

8 years ago

I loved this book so so so much!!!!!! This book is about a extremely smart eleven year old girl named Friday Barnes. Friday solves a crime, sending a man to jail for stealing his own diamond (just for the insurance money!) Friday gets a 50,000 dollar award, and decides to spend her money on a boarding school (that costs a ton of money!) While at this boarding school she makes a few friends, and solves a few crimes. But Ian Wainscott, the handsomest boy in school has it in for her, and she better watch out because a lot is coming her way. My favorite character in this book is Melanie because of her kindness, and honesty. I think that this book is for both boys and girls because there is an equal amount of boys and girls in this book. I think the message in this story is that ''Not everything is how you expect it to be.'' I hope you enjoy this book!!!

felicisowl

8 years ago

Friday Barnes is unnoticed by everyone she crosses paths with, and is even neglected by her own parents. She literally raised herself through the secluded world of books, learned languages with language tapes, and made her only friends with long-dead authors. But when she solves a mystery of a missing diamond and is rewarded with a hefty sum of money, she sends herself to boarding school – the best school in the country, in fact – to set herself on a different path than her physics-obsessed family. While at Highcrest Academy, Friday finds her true calling – solving mysteries. Why should the wealthy students of Highcrest Academy struggle to solve their own problems when they could pay her to do it for them? As Friday is solving mysteries involving fake tans, stolen clocks, fights, missing homework, dog poop, and delicious lemon tarts and chocolate-chip cookies, she meets her confidante in roommate Melanie Pelly, and an extreme annoyance in a popular & rich girl Mirabella. But she garners the attention of one Ian Wainscott, who resembles a Greek God in Friday’s eyes.. who quickly becomes Friday’s nemesis (and maybe crush, because who knows?) But Friday’s biggest mystery yet presents itself to her.. The students have been whispering about a yeti in the swamp, and to quench the gossip in an effective way (and to also avoid lawsuits from the students’ parents) the Headmaster asks Friday to find out the truth, once and for all, about the “yeti,” in return for a large reward – the Headmaster will pay for Friday’s first semester at the boarding school next year. Will Ian and Friday admit that they’re madly in love with each other? Will she find out who or what the “yeti” is? Or is this mystery too tough for Friday to crack? First of all, I just want to say that I hate cliffhangers – I love them, but I hate them. But unrelated to the horrible cliffhanger, I want to add that this book is extremely creative. I couldn’t have guessed how to solve any of the mysteries (well, I had an inkling about one, but anyway..) – the author was extremely creative with creating solutions to the mysteries. The foundation of the plot was cliché, and some of the characters were – the mean girl Mirabella could have been explored more, but she was represented by a mean girl stereotype. I do think Ian was really well developed throughout the book, and I thought I could really relate to Friday (I’m not a genius, but still) in ways that I didn’t expect. She’s a layered character, and I really liked reading about her, with all of her quirks from the brown cardigans and the silly green hat that fell to her eyes. I was on the edge of my seat when I was reading this book, even though I had promised myself I was only going to read up to this page, I often couldn’t resist reading more, it was all so exciting! This book had so much suspense throughout, and it was a really quick read for me – I really enjoyed it, more than I would expect myself to (I normally don’t like mysteries unless it’s Agatha Christie.) I recommend it to high-elementary to low-middle school readers or just about anyone who enjoys mystery books with strong, smart female characters. Who doesn’t?

bibliophile

8 years ago

I totally agree with you... I love strong female characters. I mean... girls can kick butt too... Same I feel like since Friday had different characteristics... we can all relate to her in some way...