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Second-grader Sam starts a detective club at school and, because there are no mysteries to solve, gets permission to seek the owners of three items from the lost and found closet.
About the author
Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of
Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award;
Where I’d Like to Be;
The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and
The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away;
Chicken Boy;
Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series;
Falling In;
The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews;
Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal;
Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series;
The Class;
How to Build a Story; and most recently,
Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.
Amy June Bates is the author-illustrator of
The Big Umbrella and
The Welcome Home. She is also the illustrator of the
New York Times bestseller
The Leadership Journey by Doris Kearns Goodwin;
Sweet Dreams and
That’s What I’d Do, both by singer-songwriter Jewel;
Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan;
Joey: The Story of Joe Biden by Dr. Jill Biden; and many others. She has three children and lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with her husband and her devilishly handsome Labrador, Mr. Mochi.
