What is the theme of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie?
One of the story’s main themes is Flavia’s dysfunctional family. The de Luce family maintains a very proper English type of dysfunction, with silence and emptiness rather than shouting and flinging of objects, though the sisters do quarrel regularly. For the most part, they all lead separate lives.
Who died in the sweetness at the bottom of the pie?
(Flavia de Luce #1) Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying b. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
What age is the sweetness at the bottom of the pie for?
12 – 18 Years
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385343497 |
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| Sales rank: | 30,123 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
| Lexile: | 960L (what’s this?) |
| Age Range: | 12 – 18 Years |
Who is the main character in Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie?
Flavia de Luce
Flavia de Luce Flavia is an 11-year-old girl who lives in the English countryside in 1950. Flavia becomes caught up in a murder mystery when she finds a stranger, who had argued with her father, dying in the family’s cucumber patch.
What genre is The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie?
Mystery
NovelFiction
The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie/Genres
What reading level is Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie?
| ATOS Book Level: | 6.6 |
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| Series: | Flavia de Luce Mystery; |
Is Bishop’s Lacey a real place?
So where is Bishop’s Lacey? It is located in the exact geographical centre of the reader’s mind, although I have been assured by others that it is in Yorkshire – and also in Devonshire. Producer/director Sam Mendes told me he pictured it as being Buckinghamshire.
Is the sweetness at the bottom of the pie a children’s book?
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery by Alan Bradley published in 2009….The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
| Front cover of US/Canada first edition | |
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| Author | Alan Bradley |
| Pages | 304 (UK first edition) 384 (US first edition) |
How many books are in the Flavia de Luce series?
nine books
There are nine books in publication, a tenth forthcoming, plus a short story for you to dive into. Start with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first of Flavia’s adventures, involving a very rare stamp and a dead body in a cucumber patch.
Where is Bishop’s Lacey?
What is the order of Alan Bradley books?
Alan Bradley
- The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie (2009)
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag (2010)
- A Red Herring Without Mustard (2011)
- I Am Half Sick of Shadows (2011)
- Speaking From Among the Bones (2013)
- The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (2014)
- The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (2014)