The Eagle of Rome: A Lottie Lipton Adventure (The Adventures of Lottie Lipton)

Love all of these. Buy them all! There is a vocabulary list, puzzles, games, this series has it all and is tons of fun. If only the author would write 100 more!!

Every nine-year-old girl has to have an idol and Lady Viola Kirton just happened to be Lottie’s. It was a given because Lottie Lipton practically grew up in London’s British Museum. Nix that one because she really did grow up in the museum! Uncle Bert was the Curator of Egyptology and anything ‘history’ interested Lottie. Viola was a “famous treasure hunter” and, of all things, had “unearthed the Jeweled Skull of Marrakesh.” Now how cool was that? And now Viola was on yet another treasure hunt ... looking for clues right in the museum, no less!Lady Viola was simply everything Lottie expected her to be, but a little something soon changed her mind. “Out of my way, pip-squeak! ” Lady Viola practically screamed at Lottie after she finished wooing the reporters. Excuse me? That woman was anything but elegant and charming. Lady Viola, who was no lady, was rude, rude, rude! It wasn’t just Lottie because she even insulted Uncle Bert by snubbing his handshake. What in the world was the matter with her?Even Reg, the caretaker of the museum, was snubbed by the not-so-charming Lady Viola. Apparently the clues she needed to find the “Eagle of the Ninth Legion,” the treasure many thought was a myth, was in a rare library book. The book was the only one in the entire world and Lady Viola had an “Aha” moment as she turned its pages. She’d found a critical clue! If she found the eagle, Lady Viola declared that it was “going to be sold to the highest bidder.” Oh, no! What on earth could Lottie do to prevent the loss of a national treasure? Find it herself, that’s what!Lottie Lipton is an “investigator extraordinaire” young puzzlers and mystery buffs will love! Many books for ‘tweens and teens have puzzles that are integrated into the plot lines that help solve mysteries. These have been beyond the puzzling talents of younger readers ... that is until Lottie came along. There are several puzzles that will make readers put on their thinking caps. Not only will they be able to become investigators extraordinaire themselves, but will learn some interesting facts about British history while doing their investigations.Age Range: 4 to 8Grade Level: 3 to 4Reading Level: 3THE ADVENTURES OF LOTTIE LIPTON: The Catacombs of Chaos The Curse of the Cairo Cat The Eagle of Rome The Egyptian Enchantment The Scroll of Alexandria The Secrets of the Stone This book courtesy of the publisher (to library).

Cute early chapter book with an overarching mystery as well as smaller puzzles for readers to solve.I received an electronic review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.