Guest post on Bibliophelia, Please: Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of Shadow Hills, by Carrie Cross
Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of Shadow Hills was written for the bullied kid in school, and the strong girl who protected her. The intelligent student who is misinterpreted as a nerd. The creative one who isn’t afraid to appear weird and different. And everyone who is afraid to take a risk—but is glad in the end that they had the courage. Read the rest of the interview here.
Skylar Robbins has two new crews of Secret Agents ready to help solve her next mystery: The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels, coming this June. The Shirley Lock Holmes and Wilkerson Boys, PI are already looking for clues!
The Mystery of Shadow Hills came out today in the Kindle version! Available on Amazon for only $3.99, or 99 cents if you bought the paperback.
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Find out what really inspired Skylar Robbins: the new Nancy Drew!
How many items can you name that Skylar Robbins keeps in her portable detective kit? Post your answers below and win a chance to be written into THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN JEWELS.
In a recent interview, 5 Skylar readers who became her secret agents (to participate interactively in the next book, THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN JEWELS) answered several questions. One was, “If you could ask Skylar a personal question, what would it be?”
3 of her fans answered:
Does she ever wear dresses?
How many adventures in total have you solved?
Will she be my friend?
Here is how Skylar replied:
Does she ever wear dresses?
Yes! When I go to a party, a dance, or out to dinner I almost always wear a dress, or a skirt and a cute matching top. But when hunting for clues, I usually wear jeans. You can get pretty dirty searching a dusty attic or a forgotten garden for evidence. Black fingerprinting powder gets all over your hands and can really mess up your clothes. So casual is best when you’re working a case.
How many adventures in total have you solved?
I’ve been working on cases since I was a little kid, helping my Grampa. He was a cop before he went undercover, and he taught me everything I know about solving crimes. So my adventures are really too many to count. But stay tuned. After the Mystery of the Hidden Jewels, I get tangled up in the Mystery of the Missing Heiress, which–believe it or not–is even more dangerous! After that, it’s the Curse of Koma Island. I almost don’t get off of the island alive.
Will she be my friend?
Of course I will. Anyone who enjoys mysteries, adventure, hunting for clues, and solving crimes is a definite friend of mine. And if you filled out the S.A.A.F. (Secret Agent Application Form) and have a code name, you have already proven that you have mad detective skills and have my back. Get ready for our next case. It’s going to be a wild ride!
Love, Skylar
Ten-year-old sleuth Hannah is deep into a two-month-old case with the rest of the agents in Girls Secret Agency.
Post your answers by leaving a reply, using your Secret Agent Code name, if you have one. (If not, fill out the S.A.A.F.–Secret Agent Application Form.) Answer key will be posted soon.
Love Skylar
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Amulet and earrings inspired by Skylar Robbins
Another Skylar Robbins reader makes an amulet for protection.
Samuel also makes a protective amulet like Kat’s and Skylar’s from The Mystery of Shadow Hills.
After reading the following passage from SKYLAR ROBBINS: THE MYSTERY OF SHADOW HILLS, one family was inspired to copy the creative projects suggested to 13-year-old Skylar by her new BFF, Kat, the Malibu middle school witch:
“I don’t have any ideas yet,” I admitted to Kat. “How about you?”
“I have a bunch of them,” she said, leaning toward me. “We can decorate a special box for our amulets. We can go down to the beach and collect stones with different powers and weave a basket for them. We can embroider spirit pouches and fill them with herbs, feathers, incense, and seashells. We can use our leftover liquid lead and glass stain and decorate a candle holder with Wiccan symbols.”
My new friend was amazing. “What’s Wiccan?” I mouthed.
She looked around. No one was listening. “Witchcraft.”