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The Wig in the Window

par Kristen Kittscher

Séries: Young & Yang (1)

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When their game of neighborhood spying takes a dark turn one night, pre-teen sleuths Sophie Young and Grace Yang find themselves caught in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with their bizarre guidance counselor, who may be hiding something sinister.
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While I enjoyed the story overall, I found the adult characters in the book to be extremely frustrating. If I were a parent, I would not allow a staff member from my child's school to enter my child's bedroom and to remove items belonging to my child. I wouldn't send my child for therapy with the same person they had made allegations about or threats to. If I were a principal, I wouldn't allow a staff member (a counselor, no less!) to conduct seminars in which one particular child is clearly being targeted. The ways the "grown-ups" acted and they things they allowed to happen were so aggravating to me that it distracted from the story. ( )
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
Gosh for a middle school book, this was really fun and sweet and humorous. A great quick read for folks who like young lady spies, friendships with quirks, weird wigs, and juvenile car hacking for fun among other things. I would not be adverse to a sequel! ( )
  sarahlh | Mar 6, 2021 |
She's Got Books on Her Mind

Discovering this book a while back on a blog devoted to Middle Grade books I knew that The Wig in the Window was going to be a fun, mystery book but even after anticipating reading it for so long I didn't expect how much I would love it. More specifically how much I would love Sophie's growth in the story from shy follower to fearless leader. It's the kind of book that inspires the shy reader reading it to take some chances, maybe not as extreme as going searching for clues in a suspected criminal's house but, I'm sure they still get the point of Sophie and her will to be braver.

So our narrator is Sophie, the quite girl who follows her friend Grace whenever she gets a wild idea into her head. For a while now Grace has been convinced that there is something strange going on with Sophie's counselor who they have nicknamed unaffectionately Dr. Awkward. What with Dr. Awkward's weird ever-smile, snarky remarks, deadless eyes, and massive fake breasts everything about her spells trouble. But, that doesn't stop Grace spying on her with Sophie in tow. And what they discover might just be the beginning of a real mystery in Luna Vista - one where they'll be in the center of it all.

Again my love for Sophie's character knows no bounds. The way she was treated because she liked different things than your average tween? teen? (I was never really clear on how old she was) made me like her even more. Just because she likes different things doesn't mean Grace or any others had to laugh at her or roll their eyes. She likes reading books about feng shui, worrying over her chi, practicing tai chi, and hearing quotes on Sun Tzu from her grandfather. I found her endearing and I loved it when her lights lit up when she was presented with a gift only she could love. She was just the best narrator to this really crazy thing that was happening that you don't really know everything to until the very end. It's actually very real and what happened was very tragic. The Wig in the Window should be really read by only tweens and teens, not kids any younger than that just because the realness of the story can be too much for younger audiences. Saying that the mystery of the story was really great and it had be wondering what was going on throughout the story. The author even provided some great twists toward the end so you didn't know what to think although I had a feeling I was right about a certain character.

Grace is Sophie's best friend and the story revolves around not only Sophie's growth as a character but their bumpy friendship. Grace could be pretty amusing with her crazy antics and fashion sense. She had me chuckling at times but I didn't appreciate her seemingly non-caring attitude towards Sophie with some things. Grace did grow in this story too and friendships at that age can be a bit tough so I liked that element to the story.

I also liked the addition of Trista as another friend for Sophie because Sophie had no other friend other than Grace while Grace had two fashion conscience ones. Trista was someone who said it like it was. She stood up for herself and is seriously has to be the most inventive kid ever. She knows things from all ranges of topics and is like a mad genius with gadgets. I like to see that she looks like she is going to be included more into the next book, The Tiara in the Terrace, than she was in this one. I also liked that in this story she didn't jump to conclusions and was the more logical, cautious side to their operation. They are really going to need her for future missions and I'm excited about that. I'm excited by this book in general and I can't wait for the next mystery to roll around which I'm sure I'll probably be waiting a year for... but, no matter. I can wait for another great mystery like this one because I want it to be just as good with great character development just like in The Wig in the Window. ( )
  AdrianaGarcia | Jul 10, 2018 |
Best friends Sophie Young and Grace Yang, would-be spies and FBI investigators, become involved in a mystery surrounding Sophie's middle-school guidance counselor in this debut children's novel from Kristen Kittscher. Dr. Agford - AKA Dr. Awkward - had always seemed rather creepy to Sophie, but when she sees her guidance counselor committing what she think is a murder, and reports her to the police, the fallout reveals just how menacing Agford can be. Although she was only canning beets, Dr. Agford's reaction to being spied upon arouses more suspicion in Sophie and Grace, who continue to investigate despite adult pressure to desist. Eventually they discover that Agford is a fugitive, one on the run after involvement in a terrible tragedy that cost eight high school students their lives.

I enjoyed The Wig In the Window, finding it an entertaining and (for the most part) lighthearted adventure-mystery, featuring two engaging young heroines. I was struck, during the course of my reading, by the fact that the mystery involves murder (or at the very least, manslaughter), as I feel that until recently children's mysteries have generally featured less fearsome crimes. Is it now more acceptable to feature murder in children's mysteries? I'm not sure, but this is the first example I can remember reading at the middle-grade level. I was also struck by the way Kittscher explored the cultural differences in Sophie and Grace's friendship. Grace is Chinese-American, but it is Sophie who is very interested in Chinese culture, being an admirer of Sun Tzu's writing, and a devotee of Feng Shui. This leads to tension at one point, when Grace expresses resentment during an argument, implying that Sophie is some kind of poseur, and unfairly judges her (Grace) as insufficiently Chinese for her own lack of interest in traditional Chinese culture. This was all very interesting, and quite current, with its examination of the idea of cultural appropriation. That said, it seems clear that there is also some insecurity on Grace's part - I vividly recall a similar experience I had with a friend whose parents were Russian immigrants, and who made a fuss over me when they learned I was reading Solzhenitsyn - rather than it being just a question of Sophie judging her. Sophie, for her part, has her own insecurities, worrying that Grace, who has always taken the lead in their friendship, doesn't truly value her, and is perhaps too sophisticated and fashionable for her. This last is something I suspect will be more fully explored in the sequel, The Tiara on the Terrace.

However that may be, I appreciated the author's storytelling here, and her exploration of some of the many issues that young friends in contemporary America might confront. I appreciated the fact that her some of her secondary characters, particularly the indomitable Trista Bottoms, added so much to the story. I have already started the sequel, which is a high recommendation from me! ( )
  AbigailAdams26 | Jun 2, 2016 |
If you want a mystery for kids, this is it! Perfect for grades 4 and up, both boys and girls. Kittscher does a wonderful job twisting and turning the mystery and suspense through the entire story. It's a fun and lively book and one that I will be sharing with my students. Grace and Sophie are best friends, and spies. Their normal quiet neighborhood is turned into a den for suspects as they go out searching for criminals. Their "normal" nightly routine of spying on their neighbors turns scarily interesting when they spy Sophie's guidance counselor, Dr. A, raising a cleaver, yelling into a phone about ripping someone's throat out, and covered in red liquid. Scared, they call they cops and the story goes from there. Don't want to reveal too much, but perception and inferring are running rampant in this great middle grade read! Don't miss out! ( )
  Renee.Brandon | Jul 5, 2014 |
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