The Problem Child
Author: Michael Buckley
Illustrator: Peter Ferguson
Book 3 in the Sisters Grimm series
Pages: 292
Published: 2006
Age: 7+
For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, the latest in a long line of fairy-tale detectives, there is one mystery they want to solve more than all the others: Who kidnapped their parents more than a year ago?
Sabrina enters the hideout of the Scarlet Hand, the sinister group of Everafters who are keeping her parents prisoner. She has a chance to rescue her mother and father but is foiled by the most famous fairy-tale character in the world.
How can a human child defeat a magic one? With the help of her little sister (who might be tougher than Sabrina realises) and a long-lost relative, Sabrina finds a powerful weapon for fighting her enemies, and discovers that magic has a high price . . .
About the Sisters Grimm Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Fairy-Tale Detectives(2005)
- 2.The Unusual Suspects(2005)
- 3.The Problem Child(2006)
- 4.Once Upon A Crime(2007)
- 5.Magic and Other Misdemeanors(2007)
- 6.Tales from the Hood(2008)
- 7.The Everafter War(2009)
- 8.The Inside Story(2010)
- 9.The Council of Mirrors(2012)
Reading age: 7+ years
This series should be read in order.
For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, life has not been a fairy tale. After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, the sisters are sent to live with their grandmother—a woman they believed was dead!
Granny Relda reveals that the girls have two famous ancestors, the Brothers Grimm, whose classic book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files of magical mischief. Now the girls must take on the family responsibility of being fairy tale detectives.
The Sisters Grimm is about what happens after '...happily ever after.' This is a unique and beautifully illustrated series filled with mystery, adventure and magic.