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Room One: A Mystery or Two | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew Clements
Creator: Mark Elliott
Publisher: Aladdin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 20642
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0689866879
EAN: 9780689866876
ASIN: 0689866879
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Product Description
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town.But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
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 Wonderful Author September 20, 2008
My kids want to read everything that this man has written. This one is a special favorite.
 Room One August 7, 2008
Longtime Clements reader and I have to say, this book is just horrible. It's completely lacking all of the charm we have come to know and love from all of his other books, and I don't understand where that disappeared to. Before you say, well, maybe you're just too old for the books now, I'd just like to say that I still read Frindle and the School Story and others, and they're still as good as when I first read them, if not better.
There's almost no character interaction or character development. It's simply boring.
The cultural references also threw me off, they're supposed to be timeless stories, not stories with iPods and Gameboys and wars in Iraq. They should be happening to anyone, anywhere.
I just didn't like the tone. It's nothing like his old works. If you're a fan of the classic Clements books, I strongly recommend you spare yourself a few minutes and pick another Andrew Clements book to read, cause this one's just not worth it.
Book Review by Brooke July 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ted Hammond is a boy who loves mystery books. He goes to a school with only one room and one teacher and three of four grades. Ted is the only one who is in sixth grade.
I think you should read this book because you have to think about it carefully. And you solve mysteries. Some mysteries that are going the right way go the wrong way at the end. Is the school going to stay open or not?
 Room One A Mystery or Two May 21, 2008
Room One a Mystery or Two is a very good story. It was a quick read that kept you guessing. Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his school, loves nothing better than a good mystery. He can usually solve them before the author does in the story. So he has learned a lot of tricks from the best detectives. Ted now has two real life mysteries to solve. How can he save his one room school from being shut down? And who was the girl he saw in the window of the abandoned house? I enjoyed the story and was surprised by the ending.
On another note, as a teacher I would like to use this in my fourth grade class to teach making inferences. The author does a very nice job explaining how Ted drew the conclusions that he did. Mr. Clements also showed how Ted made connections text-to-world and text-to-self. I can't wait to incorporate this into a unit next year.
An okay story January 18, 2008
Andrew Clements is an amazing author. I didn't feel that Room One was one of his best, however. It was okay. There were a few exciting parts, but it wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would be. It's a great mystery, but I don't think the characters are that well-developed. Again, like most of Clement's children books, it's about an ordinary kid who makes a difference in the world.
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