{"id":12584,"date":"2022-04-20T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12584"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:37:16","slug":"q-is-for-questions-quarrels-tangled-up-in-luck-by-merrill-wyatt-mg-book-review-a2z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12584","title":{"rendered":"Q is for questions &#038; quarrels TANGLED UP IN LUCK, by Merrill Wyatt (MG book review) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12862\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=12862\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tangled-up-in-luck-9781534495791_xlg.jpg?fit=600%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tangled-up-in-luck-9781534495791_xlg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tangled-up-in-luck-9781534495791_xlg.jpg?fit=600%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tangled-up-in-luck-9781534495791_xlg.jpg?resize=300%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"book cover of Tangled Up in Luck, by Merrill Wyatt. Published by Margaret McElderry Books\/Simon &amp; Schuster | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" class=\"wp-image-12862\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tangled-up-in-luck-9781534495791_xlg.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tangled-up-in-luck-9781534495791_xlg.jpg?resize=100%2C150&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two weeks till summer break! <br>Start a special class project?! <br>Now? Why? Hidden jewels! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn to work together, find things that aren&#8217;t on the internet &#8211; the seventh graders aren&#8217;t too happy to have different assignment partners or go through old newspaper articles at the library for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the lost jewels hidden in the late 1880s when Jacob Hoal&#8217;s partner Thomas dynamited the safe and jumped on a train &#8211; the same train that collided with Jacob and Lucretia&#8217;s train, killing them and leaving an orphan son!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volleyball star Sloane gets paired with class eccentric Amelia &#8211; arguing in the town library, sneaking around the <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiolha.org\/best-practices\/what-is-local-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">historical museum <\/a>&#8211; this won&#8217;t be easy as old grudges make the girls wary of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A circus gone bankrupt, a Stock Market wizard, explosion at the mansion, a manhunt through Ohio and beyond, then the fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/staged-train-wrecks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">train crash<\/a> &#8211; newspaper articles tell the story, but what information is missing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their classmates are using the same resources (bad luck), so Sloane and Amelia check the museum and find old timers to interview (good luck), getting a little less uncomfortable around each other as they go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did Thomas take the jewels on the train with him? <br>What happened to the orphaned son? <br>Why are the kids working on this complicated project right now? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Sloane frets about her widowed father remarrying and Amelia dreads going home to her ultra-competitive family, they don&#8217;t yet realize the danger they&#8217;ll face if they solve the mystery!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What local historical event still has people talking in your area?<br>**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>: Tangled Up in Luck (Tangled Mysteries, book 1) \/ Merrill Wyatt. Margaret McElderry Books\/Simon &amp; Schuster, 2021. [<a href=\"https:\/\/authormerrillwyatt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">author site<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Tangled-Up-in-Luck\/Merrill-Wyatt\/The-Tangled-Mysteries\/9781534495791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks till summer break! Start a special class project?! Now? Why? Hidden jewels! Learn to work together, find things that aren&#8217;t on the internet &#8211; the seventh graders aren&#8217;t too happy to have different assignment partners or go through old newspaper articles at the library for this project. 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