"Digging Up Danger" is the second in a series that combines a middle-grade novel with a how-to creative writing guide for young writers. While the novel is more a supernatural mystery than traditional mystery, the creative writing guide offers lots of helpful insights and writing exercises for both kinds of mysteries.

The first chapter is perfect for "selling" this book to my students! I know this will fly off the shelves. Adding to my order now.

This book should be on every shelf in a library and in every elementary school classroom. This book was interactive, fun and interesting through and through. Students and children will not even know that they are learning because they will be so focused on the activities throughout the story plus find out what happens to Eliza and find out if there are really ghosts or has something gone wrong with her mother's crazy plants.

Thank you Netgalley and Random House Children's for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. We will definitely consider this title in our JFiction collection at the library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.