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Tomato plants were stolen from a local garden! Hilde needs to catch the thief fast. But when she and her sister Izzy interview witnesses, they discover something strange: people all around town are getting sick! Can this real-life reporter get to the ROOT of these two mysteries?
About the author
Hilde Lysiak is the 11-year-old publisher of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania's newspaper, the
Orange Street News. The paper has 700+ paid subscribers and is read by thousands more online. Hilde's journalism efforts have been profiled by the
New York Times,
Columbia Journalism Review, NBC
Today, and hundreds of other newspapers and television stations around the world. Hilde is cowriting the Scholastic Branches series Hilde Cracks the Case with her dad, Matthew Lysiak.
Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and author. He has reported for the
New York Daily News,
Newsweek, the
New York Sun,
AM New York, and the
Guardian. He has also appeared as a contributor on
The Today Show, MSNBC, and countless other media outlets to discuss his work. He coauthored the young adult memoir of teen scientist Jack Andraka,
Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World, and was the author of
Newtown: An American Tragedy. Matthew is cowriting the Branches early chapter book series Hilde Cracks the Case with his daughter, Hilde Kate Lysiak.
JOANNE LEW-VRIETHOFF is the acclaimed illustrator of many picture books, including
Beautiful by Stacy McAnulty, named among
School Library Journal's 2016 Books with a Message. She is a Mom's Choice Gold Award medal winner whose illustrations can be found in
The Dancing Pancake by Eileen Spinelli and Peace, Baby! by Linda Ashman. Joanne also is the illustrator of the
Hilde Cracks the Case series by Hilde Lysiak. She lives in Amsterdam with her husband and two children.
