Sheela Chari’s Finding Mighty is the Perfect Summer Mystery for Middle Grade Readers
If you find yourself with kids between 8-12 who are already bored at the start of summer vacation, hand them Sheela Chari’s fast-paced mystery novel, Finding Mighty. It has all the best elements of a mystery; intriguing characters, missing treasure, bad guys after good guys, and loads of adventure. Your middle grade reader will quickly become immersed in a sometimes dangerous world of graffiti, parkour, and mysterious lost diamonds, and won’t want to put the book down.
Finding Mighty
Hardcover
$11.61
$16.95
Finding Mighty
By Sheela Chari
Hardcover
$11.61
$16.95
Finding Mighty features two characters who are both embarking on their sixth grade years. Myla and Peter are each figuring out who they are, who their families are, and how they fit into those families. Myla is Indian-American and lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York with her parents, math teacher and an urban designer and a younger nine-year-old brother named Cheetah. Peter is Indian American, African American, and white, and lives in Yonkers, New York with his phlebotomist mother, and his older brother, Randall, who is a master at graffiti. His father died when Peter was just five.
Finding Mighty features two characters who are both embarking on their sixth grade years. Myla and Peter are each figuring out who they are, who their families are, and how they fit into those families. Myla is Indian-American and lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York with her parents, math teacher and an urban designer and a younger nine-year-old brother named Cheetah. Peter is Indian American, African American, and white, and lives in Yonkers, New York with his phlebotomist mother, and his older brother, Randall, who is a master at graffiti. His father died when Peter was just five.
Randall regularly spray paints graffiti at night with a group of other boys until one night, suddenly, he takes off, leaving brother Peter bereft and searching desperately for him. Soon after, Peter’s mom mysteriously says they must move, again. (They always seem to be moving.) And as circumstances would have it, this time they end up moving out into a rental house next door to Myla’s house in Dobbs Ferry. It’s the same house that Myla has a skeleton key to because she is friends with the owner, Margaret. And it’s the same house that Peter’s Grandma Rose, who was friends with Margaret, has visited. Is it just coincidence that the two kids are brought together? Or is there some great mystery they are supposed to solve—concerning Peter’s missing brother and his new graffiti tag that says Om? And what about the old homemade necklace with a symbol meaning Om that Myla bought at a local street fair that now has her being followed? Not to mention the rumor that there are missing diamonds hidden away by the same criminal that the paper says is about to be released from prison? Finding Mighty is filled with layers upon layers of mystery and intrigue that middle grade readers will love unraveling.
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Edgar Award nominee Sheela Chari has painted a present-day story of two relatable middle grade kids who are each dealing with their own family dynamics, from garden-variety drama all the way to up a missing brother. Eventually they find themselves smack in the middle of a dangerous mystery containing some grown-up stuff, including gangs, lost diamonds, illegal graffiti, and the hazards of parkour. The adults in the story may not make perfect choices, and the kids may not either, but that’s what makes this book compelling. The reader gets swept up in finding out how the consequences of years-old decisions and past secrets can affect a family, for good or bad. Will Peter and Myla be able to solve this mystery together? Or will someone else get there first?
Edgar Award nominee Sheela Chari has painted a present-day story of two relatable middle grade kids who are each dealing with their own family dynamics, from garden-variety drama all the way to up a missing brother. Eventually they find themselves smack in the middle of a dangerous mystery containing some grown-up stuff, including gangs, lost diamonds, illegal graffiti, and the hazards of parkour. The adults in the story may not make perfect choices, and the kids may not either, but that’s what makes this book compelling. The reader gets swept up in finding out how the consequences of years-old decisions and past secrets can affect a family, for good or bad. Will Peter and Myla be able to solve this mystery together? Or will someone else get there first?
Finding Mighty is on B&N bookshelves now.