The Truth About Verity Sparks
by Susan Green
London, 1878. Thirteen-year-old Verity Sparks has an extraordinary talent: she can find lost things just by thinking about them. When she joins the Confidential Inquiry Agency as a detective, she discovers there is a secret lurking in her own past and that unknown forces are working against her. Verity and her friends are soon in great danger. Who doesn't want them to learn the truth about Verity Sparks?The Truth About Verity Sparks is a historical junior fiction novel by award-winning Australian author Susan Green. This murder mystery was an Honour Book in the 2012 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards. Read more of Verity's investigations into the paranormal in Verity Sparks, Lost and Found and Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand.