FICTION

Connect the Dots

by Keith Calabrese
Scholastic. May 2020. 240p. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9781338354034.
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Gr 3-7–When improbabilities abound, super smart sixth graders Oliver Beane and his best friend, math whiz Frankie Figge, decide to delve deeper. Their lives get more complicated when new girl Matilda Sandoval arrives, announcing that her passions are modern surveillance techniques and computer encryption. With an insightful eye, Matilda informs Oliver that he is being followed and that someone is spying on him and his mom. Soon Oliver realizes that everyone he cares about is in danger. Who can he turn to? Calabrese is a gifted storyteller, adept at character building and dialogue in this tech-centric mystery.
VERDICT Readers will enjoy this tale of adventure and friendship.
Reviewed by Lisa Gieskes, Richland County Public Library, Columbia, SC , May 01, 2020

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