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"Room One" by Andrew Clements
Product Description(Amazon.com)
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town.
But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be.
A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (May 20, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0689866879
ISBN-13: 978-0689866876
MY THOUGHTS: A really good mystery that Ted is bound and determined to solve. How to solve it comes in pieces that flow together. Mr. Clements has a great ending to this book. He also added an Epilogue. I love when authors do this! Lets you know what happened to the characters in the book. When Ted finds this family in an abandoned farm house, he starts putting clues together so he can help them. Then the problem of his school closing comes into the picture when he asks for help from his teacher. This all leads to a trickle down effect and Ted gets his mystery solved. Well, kind of. What happens to the family in the farm house? What happens to Ted's school closing? What happens to this tiny rural town? You'll have to read the book to find out.
RATING: 5
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