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A dazzling, whip-smart mystery series about two very different girls and a whole heap of danger ...

Hannah Plum loves fashion, fun, and junk food. Patti Woo is obsessed with detective novels, lives in leggings, and is definitely not Hannah's friend. But the two girls are stuck at the beachside…

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1 author picked The Puzzling Pearls as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love an Aussie mystery.

This book mixes seaside with intrigue, pools with pearls, parents with puzzles, as the two main characters bring their separate, and often conflicting, skills to the table in order to solve a mystery. The chapters are short and punchy with good cliffhangers at the end.

From Jon's list on middle grade detective fiction.

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