The Jewels of Sofia Tate

by Doris Etienne

Fifteen-year-old Garnet Walcott is lonely and has a hard time making new friends when she moves to Kitchener, Ontario. Her mother, already preoccupied with work, has begun a search for a father she never knew. By chance, Garnet meets and befriends Elizabeth Tate, an elderly widow who tells Garnet that a priceless set of heirloom jewels dating back to Russian nobility may be hidden in her Victorian home. Elizabeth shows Garnet an intriguing portrait of her late mother-in-law, Sofia Tate, wearing sapphires and diamonds.

Garnet is introduced to Dan Peters, one of the most popular boys at school, and when Elizabeth suffers a heart attack, Garnet persuades him to help her find the jewels for Elizabeth. Do the jewels really exist? Garnet believes they do, and drawing on that faith, she follows the clues left by Elizabeth's late eccentric, religious father-in-law and discovers much more than she bargained for.

Genres: Mystery, Young Adult

272 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2009

Reviews

[Mango · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good read. I would recommend it to a 4th grader. I was pretty much dying to know how it all ended. I can't really rememeber much about the book except that it had stuff to do with god and how a boy likes a girl and how the girl got jealous of his cousin and how the house keeper was evil and how they found the treasure? I alse remmber how I felt aboput the book too. I lioked it but there was nothign great about it. And that's all I have tp say about this book. Sorry for the sucky review. I wish I could type a better one for the goodreaders out there. Sorry.

[Emily Benoit]

Well, I don't have high expectations for this book when I read it, but the real reason this one interests me, is because it takes place in the city where I live. In Kitchener, Ontario. So I'm really just more interested in hearing about familiar landmarks and places in the book, which I of course, will know.