Second Fiddle Sizzle: A Sizzle and Splat Mystery

by Ronald Kidd

Book Overview

A novel for the intermediate grades dealing with friendship. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525672524
• ISBN13: 9780525672524
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A childhood favorite

I first read this book in fourth grade and thought it was one of the best pieces of fiction ever created. I read it over and over. A re-read, even in adulthood, still makes me smile. In the two Sizzle and Splat books (this is the second) a pair of high school musicians solve a musical mystery that threatens their orchestra. You can expect constant wit and humor (Had me rolling when I was nine!) Love and respect for music shines throughout. I'm amazed that Ronald Kidd didn't write more.

Second Fiddle

This is a very compelling book. Everytime I read this, I couldn't put the book down. The book creates a picture in my mind that is so clear and vivid, I feel like I am inside the story. I forget where I am when I stop to go to bed or eat dinner. The author made this story very descriptive and explanatory; every sentence can be easily understood. These are all reasons why I like this brilliant book. Prudence Szyznoski is "Sizzle" and Arthur Hadley Reavis Pauling III is "Splat". They are both part of the Los Angeles Philharomic Orchestra, which was recently being troubled by a merry prankster, playing pranks on the orchestra. Sizzle and Splat are determined to find who the merry prankster really is, but every time they think they are closer to the answer, they are actually further away. Sizzle is the one with the brains and Splat...maybe the one with no brains. They had quite a few suspects to question, and almost solved the mystery when they interrogate each one. Though they had gone through a lot of investigation and all of their theories made perfect sense, and I had thought they solved the mystery wach time the suspect someone in the orchestra, they had never guess who was the merry prankster. They also didn't know that trying to solve the case could get in so much danger, they could have been killed...