Siobhán Dowd (1960–2007)

When Ted and Katrina's cousin Salim comes to visit them in London with his mom, Aunt Gloria, they take Salim to the London Eye. Ted and Kat watch Salim get into one of the pods...but he never comes out. Neurodivergent Ted gets to work on a number of theories about what could have happened to his cousin, who was supposed to move from Manchester to New York with his mom in just two days.

See also: A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

Quotes

I know I'm a weirdo. My brain runs on a different operating system from other people's. I see things they don't and sometimes they see things I don't. (31)

There are two kinds of knowledge: shallow and deep. You can know something in theory but not know it in practice. You can know part of something but not all of it. Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred per cent. (113)… (més)

Continuation on from "The London Eye mystery". In this one Ted and his sister have traveled to New York to visit their cousin Salim and Aunt Gloria from the first book. Aunt Gloria is curating an exhibition at the famous Guggenheim Gallery and is showing them around when their is a fire emergency. Someone lets off some smoke bombs and when the coast is clear and everyone returns to the museum a million dollar painting is missing from the gallery. Ted, using his phenomenal memory and recall starts putting the pieces together to try and work out who actually stole the work of art when his Aunt is accused of the theft.
Lovely book that is easy to read and follows a very logical, well-thought out pattern for students to understand how Ted comes to his final conclusion.… (més)