With the help of his best friend, Eliza, and her wild little brother, Frank, Carlos must uncover a mystery involving an eccentric local millionaire, anonymous death threats, and a buried treasure. But when Carlos’s mom gets sick with a flu on the morning of an investigation that could save her failing detective agency, Carlos takes on the case. You pick the path-you crack the case!Ĭarlos Serrano has never solved a mystery in his life. In this wildly entertaining and interactive adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the first book in Lauren Magaziner’s hilarious and high-stakes four-book middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends put together the clues to save his mom’s detective agency.
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Who does the narcissist go after and why are certain people left alone? What does the narcissist mean when he or she is looking for green lights? These questions and more are answered in this hard-hitting and unsettling look into why the narcissist chooses you. Whether you wish to prevent it happening again or you need to understand why you were chosen, this book will deliver the answers in an uncompromising and straight forward manner. Why did the narcissist choose you? How did he or she go about deciding that you were the ideal target for him to launch his campaign of seduction upon? Did you do something to attract the attentions of this dangerous foe? This direct and comprehensive book will enable you to understand what it is that the varying types of narcissist look for when they are searching for victims. Best rally girl ever,” he commented, with his stupid Longhorn hashtags.Īs I’m giving my phone dirty looks, I shift my body, suddenly uncomfortable for reasons I don’t even understand. His number is painted on her cheek, her top is cut so low she might as well be wearing a Band-aid for a shirt, and she’s holding up a tray of carefully detailed chocolate-covered strawberries, decorated to look like footballs. It’s his rally girl, mooning at him as she leans in the window of his car. I decide to check on his social media again, and the newest picture causes my stomach to sink and my face to curl up with distaste. I try to distract myself with things that actually matter-homework, a four-hour shift at the bookstore, and the $1 clearanced paperback I couldn’t resist bringing home with me since I don’t have to pay actual money to buy books right now.Īround bedtime, my mind drifts back to Carter. I may not pay attention to the goings on around school, but Carter would have been 17 a year ago, and if a scandal involving a minor and a teacher had made the news, I would have noticed that. I tried to fact-check Grace’s story about the art teacher, but there’s no record of it. While I don’t have a clear picture of who he is, one thing is abundantly clear-whatever he is, for whatever reason, that guy is every variety of bad news. Everything Grace told me about Carter Mahoney should have diluted my interest in him. When looking for his brother in the woods, Landry encounters Fadette. He is therefore hurt, and he responds angrily and emotionally to the separation, disappearing into the woods. Sylvinet does not understand how Landry can pretend to want to leave home. Landry tries to hide his distress out of pride, unlike Sylvinet, who cries and is very demonstrative. Due to the family's dire financial straits, one twin has to leave to work in a neighbouring farm, and Landry is chosen. When they are 14 years old, the plot takes a turn. Although they are opposites, with Landry the less emotional, more conventionally strong twin, and Sylvinet, the less physically strong and more emotional one, the twins both love each other more than anything else. Consequently, the twins grow up together. The parents of Landry and Sylvinet, identical twin brothers, who are respectable and relatively rich farmers, do not follow the advice that is given at the twins' birth to keep separating and distinguishing them from each other while they are still young. The novel takes place in the 19th-century French countryside. The novel is one of Sand's best known today. Sand wrote the rural story together with La Mare au Diable and François le Champi in the 1840s as she returned from Paris to the countryside of Châteauroux. A Domestic Story (1851) and Little Fadette (1967), is an 1849 novel written by French novelist George Sand, born Amantine Dupin. La Petite Fadette, also published in English under the titles Little Fadette. Which is exactly where this story takes off.Īhhh.the joy of exploring, of risk, of trying new things. At least for one of them.īut how long can you bother your pal? About as long as it takes you to remember that out the back door is the great wide outdoors filled with possibilities. In return Augie knows that if he retaliates by "playing" the piano it will be very, very fun. Perry knows that if he steals Augie's ball it will be very, very fun. We all know how bored children and bored dogs can find enough trouble to get into to make the boring go away and Augie and Perry are masters of this. Then it grew up and everyone went off to work so the puppy - now a full blown dog - stays home all day, alone and bored. The puppy came home and everyone played with it. It will ring a bit familiar if you have a dog or two. Oh goody! 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As the sticky-note war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost soon realizes that after this year, nothing will ever be the same. Rose is not like anyone else at Branton Middle School, and it’s clear that the close circle of friends Frost has made for himself won’t easily hold another. In the middle of this, a new girl named Rose arrives at school and sits at Frost’s lunch table. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes- though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. Sometimes they can change things forever. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. In middle school, words aren’t just words. With multiple starred reviews, don’t miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. |