編輯推薦:Natalie and Annie become friends and decide to spend their summer spying on their neighbors, using the code names Elvis and Olive. What begins as a game turns serious after their findings are revealed to the neighborhood--and the girls discover unexpected things about each other.
內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:Natalie and Annie decide to put their detective skills to use as they open the E & O Detective Agency to solve neighborhood mysteries. Together they stumble across an incredibly intriguing one when Mrs. Warsaw, their elderly neighbor with memory problems, begins spreading news about a woman named Zina Zeolite hiding in her bedroom closet. Mrs. Warsaw often speaks of seeing strange things so Natalie doesn't believe her. But Annie insists that they take the case.
As the detectives start investigating, Natalie and Annie discover that Zina Zeolite is the name of the world's first female comic book superhero. But could Zina Zeolite also be a real person? And what does a superhero have to do with the ailing Mrs. Warsaw?
The girls must band together to help Natalie win her school election, solve this mystery, and stay friends.
作者簡(jiǎn)介:From the Author: I was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When I was a kid, my favorite thing was performing in plays at the Children's Theatre Company in town. The dancing and music, costumes and lights brought my favorite stories -- Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, the Velveteen Rabbit -- to life in a way that felt like some sort of magic trick. It was like stepping into the pages of the books I had read at bedtime and meeting all the funny characters. I think that in part, it was this daily contact with storytelling that made me want to eventually create my own stories.
I attended public school in Minneapolis through high school, then enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College in New York to study theater, dance and writing. I enjoyed the short stories and novels I read in my writing classes, but between assignments I would go back to the books I loved best as a kid: Harriet the Spy, Mary Poppins, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, the Ramona Quimby series. By the time I graduated from college, I knew I wanted to write for children in the spirit of these special books.
I started writing Elvis & Olive with a desire to tell a good story, but no idea if I could do it, and no clue what it would be about. So I kept the writing a secret from everyone. And soon, the whole story was about secrets.