What wonderful surprise to see Minerva Shrew and her cousin Tenacity in the Wall Street Journal!
When Margi found out her excited heart beat almost as fast as a shrew’s —1,200 times a minute! It’s so wonderful to see readers falling in love with this small detective determined to do big things!
OUr favorite quote:
Ms. Preus, who won a Newbery Honor for her middle-grade novel “Heart of a Samurai” (2010), delights in wordplay and puns, gleefully weaving in winking references to other fictional sleuths. Though she may occasionally doubt her merits in this grand tradition of investigators, Minerva proves herself more than up for the challenge. As Tenacity admiringly puts it, that’s “one shrewd detective.”
