Mysteries

Alise went to Miss Peaches’ house. She kicked the door open, and she saw her favorite book, Enchanted. Then Alise heard a scream: “Mommy!”

“Teryn!”

“Mom, come quick!”

So Alise zoomed as quick as a wink up the stairs. She could hear Teryn in a closet.

Teryn had asthma. She could not breathe in the closet, and the closet was hot. It had a lock on it. Alise saw a hammer. Quickly, she grabbed it and smashed the lock open. Then Alise saw a phone. She called 911. Alise thought, I’m so glad she paid her phone bill.

“Hello,” the lady said.

Alise said, “Please, get the ambulance, please.”

The lady said, “On it,” and hung up.

Alise dashed back to Teryn. “Don’t worry, sweetie. They’re on their way.” Then Alise asked Teryn, “Where is Miss Peaches?”

“She told me she was going to the store because she was going to get me something that was not healthy.”

Alise said, “Well, that’s not going to happen.”

Then they heard the ambulance. Alise vanished downstairs and told them to come in. The police zoomed upstairs. They grabbed the girl and put her into the car. As soon as they put her safely into the car, Miss Peaches came. Alise flashed outside and kicked Miss Peaches. Then the police came, and Miss Peaches went to jail.

As Teryn grew up, she decided she wanted to be an art teacher, because her grandma told her that she was good at art. Every time she saw her mom, Alise, it reminded her of Miss Peaches.

Alise and Teryn became wonderful, grateful, thoughtful people.

ck

by Zariah Edwards

hi there! i’m Joe bluebird. I am thirty-five years old. I live in a motel in Africa. I travel a lot because I am a detective, and I’m always trying to solve a mystery. I am looking for my crystal rock, which someone stole from me. I think it was Angie Floubenski, because she was jealous when I got it from General Dinker Bluebird. I think he’s crazy for hiring her. She was a problem from the start. She could never keep her eyes off of my crystal.

I went home and felt a draft. I looked around and I saw my patio door open. I wondered if Angie was here. I bet she was, because I don’t see my crystal where I normally put it. I guess I put it somewhere else? I’m going to look for it. I’ll check the cupboard. Nothing there but platters. Maybe it’s under my bed.

Vroom!, a car went outside. It’s Angie. I know it’s her. Come on, I’ve wasted time. I need to leave right this minute.

I’m right behind her as she goes into a building with clues. I bet it’s her crew, Josh Lafart and Gingo

Grose. Oh my gosh, I can’t catch them. They are going as fast as a mouse running away from a cat. My head is spinning like the Hatter in Alice in Wonderland.

I got it! I can get there before they do, and get them when they walk in the door.

I am doing back-flips and back-bends, and then I hit Angie. She looks at me.

“Where is it, Angie?”

“Where’s what?” she asks innocently.

“You know what I am talking about,” I say in disbelief.

“No, I don’t!”

“Look,” I say, “I am not going to go back and forth with you. Where is my crystal rock? If you don’t tell me where it is, I will—”

She stops me. “Do what? What are you going to do? Take me down? No, you won’t do anything.”

“Give me my crystal rock!” I demand.

“Here,” she says, finally, “but don’t forget, I can GET IT BACK!”

POPY w AYNE AND j ESSE w AYNE

by Jesse O’Neal

popy lives in foster care, and he wanders the world. His partner, Jesse, is super strong. He and Jesse can lift a semi-truck. Jesse has a special superpower—it is a sting blower. Popy has one too—his is thunder lightning. They love to fight crimes. Crimes are fun to solve, they think, because you get a chance to save the world. Some of the villains they fight are Nick, Cordin, Slim Jim, Jim Slim, Mrs. Toot Toot, Mr. Jasen Masen, and Mr. Greca, a.k.a Trevor.

One day, Jesse’s teacher from college, Mrs. Winters, got kidnapped. He did not like it, so he called up his partner, Popy Wayne. Mrs. Winters did not answer her door when they went to investigate. Then Popy saw footprints coming from the back door. He saw a part of a rope and a gun. They put on plastic gloves, and they held walkietalkies and box-cutting knives and dusting brooms. They held a scooper called the Mager. Then they found out it was Nick, Cordin, Slim Jim, Jim Slim, and Mr. Jasen Masen, and they were as mad as bears. “Why did you kidnap her?”

“For her billion dollars,” they said, “and her jewelry.”

by Brandon Webb

detective michael has a dog named Zoe. He loves animals but not people. He lives in Florida, and he is thirty-two years old. He has a friend named Justin, and Justin has lots of animals. He has a dog, a cat, a bird, a snail, two fish, and a hamster.

Detective Michael is trying to solve the Crime of the Stolen Shark Teeth. It all started when Mrs. Johnson bought twenty shark teeth. She bought some of the shark teeth in Florida and doesn’t like to talk about them because she thinks someone will steal them, and then someone does.

Detective Michael searches the classrooms for clues. He finds eight green feathers. They belong to some animal that has green feathers, and he can only think of one person who has an animal with green feathers, and that is Justin.

He does not want to think it is Justin, so he goes to the library, and a book says that there is only one of the rare green birds left in the U.S. He goes to Justin’s house, and Justin is not there. He opens the door,