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The Case of the Messy Message and the Missing Facts
$12.95 Available April 22, 2022.Will officially release in July 2022
It’s Fall now and the Cayuga Island Kids are busy with homework, projects, and after school activities. But there’s still plenty of time for mystery and adventure!
In the third book in the Cayuga Island Kids chapter book series, Julian is exploring food science as he experiments with recipes on his quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Being a cookie sampler takes Mac’s mind off his troubles with fractions. Yoko is practicing gestures and facial expressions in anticipation of the school play tryouts. Maya is Ms. Choi’s helper in the after-school Make-and-Take-Club for younger crafters. Lacey is taking care of the little community library that Gram built—and searching for the next mystery to solve.
When two of Ms. Choi’s glitter pens go missing, Maya turns to Lacey for help. The clues and evidence point to a suspect, but are they jumping to conclusions? When a classmate jumps to conclusions and shares false information about Julian’s cookies, the Cayuga Island Kids join forces to set the facts straight. When the kids research explorers for a school project, they uncover misinformation that blurs the truth, and makes the reasons for being a fact detective crystal clear.
As the fall leaves turn color, the Cayuga Island Kids come to realize that sorting through clues and evidence—just like research—means making sure information is factual, and not just a fraction of the truth. Young readers will cheer for the Cayuga Island Kids as they embark on this latest adventure involving faulty assumptions, missing facts, flour bugs, and chocolate chip cookies.
Check out The Case of the Messy Message and the Missing Facts book trailer!
Vivian Vande Velde –
Likeable kids use their distinctive personalities and particular interests to solve mysteries. Good fun and gentle humor abound. Author Judy Bradbury subtly guides readers in how to research a subject of interest. Gabriella Vagnoli’s lively illustrations show that the children are as diverse as their interests.
James Preller –
Any book that begins with a map of an island is my kind of story. Enliven that setting with a diverse group of characters who are consistently kind—and bursting with curiosity—and you’ve got all the elements of a series that is alive with adventure, friendship, and mystery.
margaret carey –
Judy Bradbury introduces her readers to the Cayuga Island Kids, a diverse group of children ready for the adventures of summer vacation on the island. Their first quest is to find a dogwood tree, a tree that sounds like a barking dog when it’s branches are rubbed together. Along the way, the five children discover a mysterious object buried on their island. Is this object part of the history of Cayuga Island? The Kids enlist the help of their school librarian, a park volunteer, a college professor and an archaeologist to help them research, analyze the facts, and solve The Mystery of the Barking Branches and the Sunken Ship. Illustrations by Gabriella Vagnoli add detail and life to this fun summer adventure. This reader can’t wait to read the next book in the series, when author Judy Bradbury and illustrator Gabriella Vagnoli share The Adventures of the Big Fish by the Small Creek, Book Two in this fun new series.