Over the last couple weeks I read this series. (Books 1-5 are already back at the library.) Sam is also reading them, she's on book 9 right now. They are maybe a middle school reading level, probably closer to 6th grade.
Each one is a simple adventure story, although sometimes the books do lead one right into the next without having resolved every detail of the preceding plotline.
Although the majority of the major characters are male, there are two girls who are also main characters, and I like that they are not wimpy stand on the sidelines and let someone else do the fighting characters. They actually do stuff. Important stuff. And they can fight but aren't crazy ninjas or anything. And when one character says something sexist, the others all scold.
Speaking of, a lot of young adult fiction ends up talking about sex in some way. I think mostly it is used in ways that are completely irrelevant to the story itself. This series doesn't do that. Aside from a brief conversation in which an older character lies to another about the profession of women in super short skirts... But it's such a small conversation that I know will go right over my daughter's head.
A good series, not deep or complex, but fun.
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