The Professor's Discovery

by Michele Jakubowski, Amerigo Pinelli (Illustrator)

Overview

A history professor has discovered something valuable amid the dust at Somerville’s tiny museum. It’s a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his boyhood friend. Some townspeople want to sell it, and soon they start squabbling about what to do with the money. Somerville’s young sleuths decide to get involved before the letter can be sold or stolen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496531810
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Series:	The Sleuths of Somerville
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.44(d)
Lexile:	840L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Working at a school (and having two of her own children) gives Michele Jakubowski more than enough experiences to draw from when writing middle-level fiction. Michele has also written other popular books in the Sidney & Sydney series and the Perfectly Poppy early chapter book set. Michele lives in Powell, Ohio, with her husband, John, and their children, Jack and Mia.

Long ago, Amerigo Pinelli met a pencil when he was a child living in the heart of the city of Naples, Italy. From that moment on he started to play, joke, fight, and make peace with it. Today, he works in animation and publishing, and he also teaches kids in the comics school of Naples. He thinks making a living doing the thing he enjoys the most is a great gift, and he considers himself very lucky. His three daughters Chiara, Teresa, and Irene fill his life with color and joy. They are really unpredictable! For him and his wife,Giulia, it's impossible to get bored!

Interviews

• Curriculum tie-in • Good for teaching sequence and plot • Reluctant reader appeal • suspenseful and quick reads • Popular genre • Mysteries sell well in middle grade