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Title:

Gideon Green in black and white / Katie Henry.

Author:

Henry, Katie, author.

ISBN:

9780062955739

Personal Author:

Henry, Katie, author.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

373 pages ; 22 cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Abstract:

"Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else ... moved on ... Now he's sixteen and officially retired. That is, until Lily shows up suddenly at Gideon's door, needing his help ... As a cover, Gideon joins Lily on the school paper. Surprisingly, he finds himself warming up to the welcoming, close-knit staff ... especially Tess, the cute, witty editor-in-chief"-- Provided by publisher

Subject Term:

Student newspapers and periodicals -- Juvenile fiction.

Investigative reporting -- Juvenile fiction.

Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

High school students -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Student newspapers and periodicals -- Fiction.

Investigative reporting -- Fiction.

Teenagers -- Fiction.

High school students -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Mystery and detective stories.

Humorous stories.

Genre:

Young adult fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Novels.

Format:

Books

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Summary

Truly Devious meets Turtles All the Way Down in critically acclaimed author Katie Henry's YA contemporary comedic mystery, a hilarious send-up of the hardboiled detective genre that spotlights family, friendship, and love.

Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else--including his best friend, Lily--moved on while Gideon kept holding on to his trench coat, fedora, and his treasured film noir collection. Now he's sixteen and officially retired. That is, until Lily shows up suddenly at Gideon's door, needing his help.

He might be mad at her for cutting him off with no explanation, but Gideon can't turn down a case. As a cover, Gideon joins Lily on the school paper. Surprisingly, he finds himself warming up to the welcoming, close-knit staff . . . especially Tess, the cute, witty editor-in-chief.

But as the case gets bigger than Gideon or Lily could have anticipated, Gideon must balance his black-and-white quest for the truth with the full colors of real life--or risk a permanent fade to black.

* A Junior Library Guild Selection *

* A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten Title *

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In Henry's (This Will Be Funny Someday) funny, heartwarming take on film noir, retired 16-year-old detective Gideon Green routinely wears a trench coat and felt fedora, and--following the fall of his once-successful kid detective agency--eats alone in the school cafeteria. But when his former best friend Lily Krupitsky-Sharma, who dumped him in the seventh grade, approaches him for help, he agrees--hoping to prove that "I was right to consider myself a detective." Lily, now the school newspaper's features editor, wants to write a story about an uptick in nonviolent crime in their Southern California town, San Miguel--and Gideon has the detecting skills she needs. So he joins the newspaper as copy editor, a gig that involves detecting "what's wrong," but the stakes are considerably raised when the duo discovers a dead man. Gideon proves equal to his noir heroes, falls into a rousing romance with the newspaper editor, and heals his troubled relationship with his single-parent dad in an entertaining, emotional read. Snippets of the story rendered in noir-style prose add an amusing note to the writing's overall excellence. Gideon is of Mexican descent; Lily is "a brown girl with two moms." Ages 13--up. Agent: Sarah LaPolla, Bradford Literary. (May)

Kirkus Review

A 16-year-old detective discovers that noir films are at best iffy guides to both real-life crime investigations and personal relationships. Pulled away from his bedroom and massive library of old movies by Lily Krupitsky-Sharma, a childhood friend--turned--ex-friend since middle school, who asks for help with a story she's secretly writing for the school newspaper, Gideon finds himself both intrigued by oddities in their SoCal town's crime statistics and dazzled by the paper's smart, charismatic, bisexual editor-in-chief, Tess Espinoza. Deftly twirling noir and rom-com tropes together, Henry chucks in, on the one hand, a corpse, all sorts of conveniently placed evidence of police corruption, and even a comprehensive overheard confession, and on the other, a meet-cute in a bustling newsroom that leads Gideon and Tess into a heady and hilarious high school romance that is likewise chock full of revelations and confessions. Gifted with Sherlock-ian powers of observation, Gideon is so full of himself that he actually wears a trench coat and a fedora. Still, by the end he has not only learned how to rein in his impulse to blurt out infuriating personal comments, but has found ways to mend his relations with Lily and with his single dad, too. Gideon's father is Mexican and White, and brown-skinned Lily has two moms; names cue some ethnic diversity in the supporting cast. A tongue-in-cheek charmer: Sit back and enjoy the show. (Fiction. 13-17) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.