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    The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1–4: The Mystery of the Blue Ring, The Riddle of the Red Purse, The Secret at the Polk Street School, and The Powder Puff Puzzle
    The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1–4: The Mystery of the Blue Ring, The Riddle of the Red Purse, The Secret at the Polk Street School, and The Powder Puff Puzzle
    The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1–4: The Mystery of the Blue Ring, The Riddle of the Red Purse, The Secret at the Polk Street School, and The Powder Puff Puzzle
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    The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1–4: The Mystery of the Blue Ring, The Riddle of the Red Purse, The Secret at the Polk Street School, and The Powder Puff Puzzle

    By Patricia Reilly Giff and Blanche Sims

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    Second-grader Dawn Bosco must put her detective skills to the test in these four mysteries at the Polk Street School
    The Mystery of the Blue Ring Dawn Bosco and Emily Arrow used to be best friends, until Dawn took Emily’s unicorn. Even though Dawn eventually gave it back, Emily still won’t talk to her. When Emily’s blue birthday ring goes missing after art class, the rest of the second grade accuses Dawn of stealing it. Dawn sets out to solve the mystery herself to prove she is innocent—and maybe get her best friend back. The Riddle of the Red Purse

    When Dawn finds a red purse on the playground after school one day, she knows she’s also found a new mystery to solve. But after she puts up posters and makes an announcement on the loudspeaker, too many people are trying to claim the purse! The only clues are a shopping list, some money, and some dust that looks like cookie crumbs. Dawn will have to figure out the riddle of the purse’s odd contents to find its rightful owner. The Secret at the Polk Street School

    Ms. Rooney’s second-grade class is determined to win the school contest by putting on a surprise play. Dawn Bosco will play Little Red Riding Hood, and Jason Bazyk will be the Big Bad Wolf. But someone is trying to ruin everything. First, Dawn hears a scary voice backstage. Then, the wolf suit goes missing. Dawn has to get to the bottom of the mystery in order to save the play and win the prize. The Powder Puff Puzzle

    One hot summer day, Dawn’s cat, Powder Puff, jumps into an open car window. Before Dawn can catch up, the driver speeds off! Dawn is sad, but she knows she’s a great detective. It’s up to the Polka Dot Private Eye to track down the car, the driver, and Powder Puff.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9781453276716
    The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1–4: The Mystery of the Blue Ring, The Riddle of the Red Purse, The Secret at the Polk Street School, and The Powder Puff Puzzle
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    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Patricia Reilly Giff is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Kids of the Polk Street School books and the Polka Dot Private Eye books. Several of her novels for older readers have been chosen as ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Books and ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. She won the Newbery Honor for Lily's Crossing (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book) and Pictures of Hollis Woods. She lives in Connecticut.

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      The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1–4 - Patricia Reilly Giff

      The Polk Street Mysteries Books 1-4

      The Mystery of the Blue Ring, The Riddle of the Red Purse, The Secret at the Polk Street School, and The Powder Puff Puzzle

      Patricia Reilly Giff

      Illustrated by Blanche Sims

      Contents

      The Mystery of the Blue Ring

      The Riddle of the Red Purse

      The Secret at the Polk Street School

      The Powder Puff Puzzle

      A Biography of Patricia Reilly Giff

      About the Illustrator

      The Mystery of the Blue Ring

      Patricia Reilly Giff

      Illustrated by Blanche Sims

      For my dear Catherine Van Slyck

      with love

      Contents

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      CHAPTER 7

      CHAPTER 8

      CHAPTER 9

      CHAPTER 10

      CHAPTER 1

      IT WAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

      Dawn Bosco turned the page of her book. She wanted to get to the end before art.

      She had to find out about the secret in the old house.

      Ms. Rooney looked up. Dawn, are you listening?

      Dawn closed her book.

      Today is Good Vegetable Day, said Ms. Rooney.

      Dawn rolled her pencil down her desk.

      She hated vegetables.

      She thought about the girl in her book, Diane the Detective.

      Dawn wished she could be a detective, too.

      She wished she could solve a mystery. A scary one.

      Who has a favorite vegetable? asked Ms. Rooney.

      Jason Bazyk waved his hand. Apples, he said.

      That’s not a vegetable, said Timothy Barbiero.

      How about spinach? asked Ms. Rooney. Or cabbage?

      Yuck, Dawn said.

      Next to her, Emily Arrow said yuck, too.

      Dawn looked at Emily.

      Sometimes they were friends. Sometimes they weren’t.

      She had done something bad to Emily.

      She had taken her unicorn.

      That was weeks ago, though. She had given it back.

      Maybe Emily didn’t remember it anymore. Dawn hoped not.

      The bell rang. It was time for art.

      Dawn raced to the front of the line. She edged in ahead of Emily.

      Dawn loved to be first.

      Emily gave her a little push.

      Emily liked to be first, too.

      They marched into the art room.

      On every table were lumps of gray stuff. There were little bowls of water, too.

      Dawn wondered what they were for.

      Mrs. Kara, the art teacher, clapped her hands. Today is Good Vegetable Day.

      I’m sick of vegetables, said Jason.

      Dawn was sick of vegetables, too. She poked her finger into the gray stuff.

      It was soft. Gooey.

      It felt like chewing gum.

      Mrs. Kara held up a piece. This is clay, she said.

      Dawn wrinkled her nose. At home her clay was red and yellow and green. Not yuck gray.

      We are going to make Good Vegetables, said Mrs. Kara. Watch. I’m going to make a head of lettuce.

      Mrs. Kara rolled a fat ball. She made a curly top.

      She kept wetting her lettuce with her fingers. The water makes it easier to shape, she said.

      Dawn looked out the window. If only she could find a mystery!

      Mrs. Kara held up her gray lettuce.

      Jill Simon started to cry. I don’t know how to do it.

      Of course you do, said Mrs. Kara. Now, everyone pick a vegetable.

      Dawn pulled at her clay. She’d make a cucumber. That would be easy.

      Emily Arrow put up her hand. I’m going to make a cucumber.

      Me, too, said Dawn.

      Mrs. Kara frowned a little. Make something else, Dawn.

      Dawn crossed her eyes at Emily.

      She tried to think of something else to make.

      Beast was making a string bean. He mashed the clay against the table.

      He was making a big mess.

      Jill Simon was making an onion. It looked like fat gray ball with lines.

      Dawn dug into her own clay.

      She made a fat carrot.

      It was much better than Emily’s cucumber.

      Emily’s cucumber was too fat on one end. It was too skinny on the other. It looked like a mouse.

      We’ll put the vegetables on the windowsill, said Mrs. Kara. Everyone will see them.

      Dawn rushed to finish first. Her hands were gray. So were her nails.

      Hurry, said Mrs. Kara. It’s almost time to go home.

      Dawn went to the art room closet to wash.

      A minute later, Emily came in. So did Sherri Dent and Jill and Linda Lorca.

      The water in the sink was icy cold.

      They all put their hands in it.

      Everyone was laughing.

      Everyone but Dawn and Emily.

      Emily was taking up too much room, Dawn thought.

      She gave her a little push.

      Emily pushed back.

      A gold ring lay on the ledge of the sink.

      Dawn poked it back against the wall. She didn’t want it to go down the drain.

      Move over, she told Emily.

      You move over, carrot legs, Emily told her.

      Dawn sniffed. You don’t know beans from grapes. She took a piece of brown paper to dry her hands.

      She marched out of the closet.

      She wished she could find a crime right now.

      She’d solve it in two minutes.

      Emily would be sorry.

      Very sorry.

      CHAPTER 2

      THE NEXT MORNING, Dawn waited at the corner.

      She stamped up and down in her new cowgirl boots.

      Her grandmother had bought them for her.

      Noni bought her everything. Almost everything.

      Hi, Dawn called to Carmen, the crossing guard.

      Carmen didn’t call back. She was too busy. She waved her arms around. Dawn waved her arms around, too.

      She’d love to wear a blue hat and a badge.

      She’d love to tell people what to do.

      She’d tell the good kids to cross first.

      She’d make the bad kids cross last.

      She’d make Emily Arrow stand on the corner forever.

      Carmen held up her hand.

      A green car stopped. So did a white one.

      Dawn held up her hand, too.

      Nothing happened.

      Carmen smiled at her. You can cross now.

      Dawn started across the street.

      What’s cooking, Cookie? Carmen asked.

      Carmen said that every day.

      Dawn lifted one foot high in the air.

      New tights? Carmen asked.

      Dawn shook her head. Her tights were a hundred years old. They had a hole in the toe.

      Cowgirl boots, she said.

      Nice. Carmen held up her hand. Have a good Friday.

      Dawn marched into the Polk Street School. She went down the hall into Room 113.

      She hoped everyone could see her boots.

      She made believe they had a speck on them.

      She bent down to clean them off.

      Jason bumped into her. He nearly knocked her over.

      Sorry, he yelled. He slid out of her way.

      Not so loud, Jason, said Ms. Rooney.

      Dawn shook her head. Jason was loud. He was loud even when he

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