Absolutely Truly: a Pumpkin Falls Mystery (Reprint)

Marc Notes: Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter--; Provided by publisher. Publisher Marketing: An unsent letter in a first edition copy of "Charlotte s Web" leads to a hunt for treasure in this heartwarming middle grade mystery from the author of "The Mother-Daughter Book Club." Now that Truly Lovejoy s father has been injured by an IED in Afghanistan and is having trouble finding work back home, the family moves from Texas to tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, to take over Lovejoy s Books, a struggling bookstore that s been in the family for one hundred years. With two older brothers and two younger sisters clamoring for attention, her mother back in school, and everyone up to their eyebrows trying to keep Lovejoy s Books afloat, Truly feels more overlooked than usual. So she pours herself into uncovering the mystery of an undelivered letter she finds stuck in a valuable autographed first edition of "Charlotte s Web," which subsequently goes missing from the bookshop. What s inside the envelope leads Truly and her new Pumpkin Falls friends on a madcap treasure hunt around town, chasing clues that could spell danger. Fans of Heather Vogel Frederick s Mother-Daughter Book Club series will rejoice for a new series with a similarly cozy New England setting, great characters, and literary references to beloved classics ("School Library Journal")." Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2015 (EAN 9781442429741, Open Ebook) School Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 121 (EAN 9781442429727, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2014 (EAN 9781442429727, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 10/06/2014 (EAN 9781442429727, Hardcover) Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 54 (EAN 9781442429727, Hardcover) Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2015 (EAN 9781442429727, Hardcover) BookPage 11/01/2014 (EAN 9781442429727, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Frederick, Heather Vogel Heather Vogel Frederick is the author of the popular Mother-Daughter Book Club series, as well as the highly acclaimed "The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed", "The Education of Patience Goodspeed", and the Spy Mice series. She resides with her family in Portland, Oregon. Visit her at HeatherVogelFrederick.com.