Snowize & Snitch: Highly Effective Defective Detectives

by Karen Briner Narrated by Stacey Briner

Overview

Ever Indigo Nikita Stein is quite sure she doesn't belong at the School for Gifted Children of Genius Parents where she's mockingly called "Einstein" by her classmates. After all, her parents disappeared nine years ago and are missing and presumed dead and she has no idea if they were geniuses. She's been leading a lonely life under the care of the Doc, the kind but reclusive inventor of invisible ice cream, where her only friend is a badly-programmed robot fridge with anger issues. Things get worse for Ever when a crow delivers a cryptic message from the future and the Doc, fearing for his life, vanishes through a forbidden door. It turns out that scientists and inventors around the world are under threat - one has met with a terrible fate and another has been kidnapped. Ever must seek the help of an unlikely pair of detectives, Harry Snowize, a former spy, and Snitch, a clever and dignified rat. As the trio embark on a wild adventure across the globe to solve a mystery and save the inventors, Ever comes to realize that perhaps she's not so inadequate after all. 

Editorial Reviews

School Library Journal

05/01/2016
Gr 4–6—A middle grade adventure that hooks readers right in the first chapter with a strong female character and a cryptic message from a crow about her missing parents. Ever Indigo Nikita Stein is enrolled at the School for Gifted Children of Genius Parents—even though her genius parents are missing and presumed dead. She is pulled into an adventure when her guardian, legendary Doctor Professor David Ezratty (otherwise known to students as "Scatty Batty Ezratty" and the creator of invisible ice cream), goes missing and it is up to Ever to find him. With the help of the Highly Effective Snowize and Snitch Detectives (a onetime spy and a dignified rat), the characters, along with a "mean-spirited robot fridge," embark on a long journey through time to find all of Ever's missing relatives. Ever is a successful underdog forced to rely on her wit and humor and her oddball team as they race through an international quest to find the missing geniuses and capture the evil mastermind. VERDICT This is a fun, action-packed story for any fantasy/adventure reader.—Christina Pesiri, Michael F. Stokes Elementary School Library, Island Trees-Levittown NY

Kirkus Reviews

2016-02-17
Hoping to find her lost guardian, Doctor Professor David Ezratty, 12-year-old Ever Indigo Nikita Stein teams up with a pair of detectives battling the forces of the evil ColdCorp Corporation. When Doc disappears, a crow from the future brings Ever a message: save the detectives. But who are they? Following a holographic message left in her guardian's laboratory, Ever solves this first mystery by going through a formerly forbidden tunnel that takes her to the office of Harry Snowize, in denial about his imperfect memory, and Snitch, a giant African pouched rat that communicates in sign language. These are the defective detectives. This elaborately constructed and bizarrely detailed adventure is full of slightly off-kilter references and scene changes. From South Africa to Zimbabwe, Japan, and Spain, and back to Cape Town, the unlikely trio pursues the problem of disappearing scientific minds. Occasionally they're joined by Doc's perpetually angry robot refrigerator. Ever has a useful photographic memory, but she also has an attitude problem of her own. Struggling in school, the sarcastically nicknamed "Einstein" believes she's "a magnet for bad luck." Briner plays with quest-adventure tropes, but it's the elaborate vocabulary and play with words that will appeal to her audience. Ending with a grand semantic twist, this convoluted caper even offers a satisfying solution to the mystery of Ever's missing parents. Finished interior illustrations were not seen, but the cover depicts Ever and Snowize as white. For able readers looking for the unusual. (Adventure. 8-12)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175636438
Publisher:	Old Zoo Press
Publication date:	03/16/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

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