May Read/Patti 2

Title: “CSI: The Case of the Missing Moola”, Published 2012 by Simon and Schuster

 Patti's Read:

          Ben, Han, and Corey are three close friends in the seventh grade.  This story tells of the adventure at their school which led to them to use their extracurricular three person Forensic Science Club skills to solve the missing class trip money at school.

          The seventh graders were having a fund raiser to provide their class share of monies to pay for a class trip to Washington D.C.  Mrs. Ramirez collected all the money of those students present on a certain day.

          The money box was opened later so that all the student money envelopes could be recounted and turned into the office.  The money box was found to be $100. short.

          As the days go on, and the three detectives investigate, various people are suspected and cleared.  Finally the three come across Greg, a student who admits to taking the money to pay for a Quark Pad that he claimed was only $100., from a Nick and Alex.

          The student detectives know that the pads cost a lot more than that and set up a “sting” with the principal and police alerted so that the crooks could be caught.  They are successful and find that Nick and Alex have been stealing the pads and selling them cheap. The two are arrested.

          Greg admits he took the money and the school is letting him pay it off in installments.

The Quark Pad Company was so happy the thieves were caught that they made a generous cash contribution to the school and that more than covered the rest of the money needed to fully finance the trip.  They also gave each of the three student detectives their own Quark Pad as a reward for such great work.