'India Wimple can spell. Brilliantly. Every Friday night, she and her family watch the Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee. When the Wimples suggest she enter the next Bee, India says she's not good enough but her family won't hear it and encourage her to sign up. There are plenty of obstacles to reaching the finals: something in India's past has made her terribly, horribly shy, and moving on to each round involves finding the money to make it happen. And finally, there's Summer Millicent Ernestine Beauregard-Champion, a spoilt rich girl who is determined to win and isn't afraid to step on anyone who gets in her way' (publication blurb).
Teachers' notes via publisher's website.
The Most Marvellous Spelling Bee Mystery
Sydney
:
Random House Australia
,
2018
13982632
2018
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Just when India Wimple’s life is returning to normal after competing in the Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee, she’s invited to London for an international spelling showdown. But how can she go without her family? The Yungabilla community might have a solution!
'In London, India is reunited with her friends Rajish and Summer. They meet new spellers, and are invited to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen.
'But there is skulduggery afoot, with a series of mysterious mishaps. There is even talk of cancelling the competition altogether.
'India and her friends are determined to find out who the culprit is and get the spelling bee back on track.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
