By
Alidis Vicente
- Age Range: 4 - 8 years
- Grade Level: Preschool - 3
- Series: Flaca Files / Los Expedientes de Flaca
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Pinata Books; Bilingual edition (May 30, 2016)
- ISBN-10: 1558858229
- ISBN-13: 978-1558858220
Flaca, or Detective Flaca as she prefers to be called, is
pleased with her Christmas gifts. Finally, she has the tools needed to do her
job: a fingerprint-taking kit, a police-quality mini flashlight, and most
exciting of all, police tape to block off crime scenes! However, she is not at
all pleased with the airline tickets to Puerto Rico she and her sister La Bruja
are given. She has case deadlines to meet! La Bruja isn't very happy either
since their grandmother's house doesn't have air conditioning, cable TV or
Wi-Fi.
Their parents are sure the girls will enjoy celebrating Three
Kings Day, a huge holiday in Latin America that takes place on January 6 and
involves putting grass in a box under the bed for the wise men's camels. Three
men on flying camels sounds very suspicious to Detective Flaca, who once again
is faced with a case begging to be solved. Where do the Three Kings get the
gifts to put in the boxes? Do they steal presents from Santa Claus? Or do they
take them from under Christmas trees around the world?
The skinny second grader first introduced in The Case of the
Missing Chancleta and Other Top-Secret Cases / La chancleta perdida y otros
casos secretos is back on the case in the second installment of the bilingual
series, The Flaca Files / Los expedientes de Flaca. Narrated by Detective Flaca
in hard-boiled detective style, this short, bilingual novel for intermediate
readers will appeal to seasoned and reluctant readers alike.
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