How do you summarize Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery?

To write a summary of a book, we start by identifying the title, author, and main characters. We then explain the most important details of the story, which are the conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution.The most important character in any story is the protagonist, which is the main character who grows and changes as a result of overcoming the conflict. The conflictin a story is the battle the protagonist struggles against....

To write a summary of a book, we start by identifying the title, author, and main characters. We then explain the most important details of the story, which are the conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution.

The most important character in any story is the protagonist, which is the main character who grows and changes as a result of overcoming the conflict. The conflict in a story is the battle the protagonist struggles against. In Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery, the protagonist and narrator is Ted Spark, who works with his sister Kat to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim when he disappeared. Ted and Kat battle against a society that doesn't believe children are able to solve a crime and fail to take them seriously, especially Ted, who has Asperger syndrome. Ted and Kat particularly struggle against Detective Inspector Pearce, who fails to take their observations and theories seriously.

The term rising action refers to all events that lead to the story's climax, which is the turning point in the story, the moment when the story starts leading to the resolution. All the clues the children find count as rising action. The climax occurs the moment Ted and Kat realize that Salim actually had almost made it all the way back to the Sparks' home that day, but he got distracted by the Barracks, a very tall building in the Sparks' neighborhood about to be demolished. Salim loves tall buildings and couldn't help but want to explore and see the view from the top story. Ted further realizes that Salim got accidentally locked in the building when Ted and Kat's father, who is in charge of the demolition, locked up for the night.

Naturally, the resolution occurs when Salim is found, and Salim agrees to move to New York City with his mother though he had not wanted to at the start of the story.