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didn’t have a whole lot to do with Carl Sandburg Elementary School except that the monster that ate the state they lived in happened to eat the school, too.
    After Brenda, Andrew Leoni read a story about everyone’s homework getting stolen. Then Julia Santos read a story about a bunch of art projects getting trashed. Then Mari Cheng read a story about someone’s science experiment blowing up and turning all the kids and teachers purple. Finally, Katie Zaleski read a story about the principal getting kidnapped by aliens.
    At the end of all the readings, everyone voted on the best story. After taking a tally of hands, Mrs. Reynolds announced: “And the winner is . . . Nancy Drew’s team! Your story will be published in the next school newsletter.”
    â€œYes!” Bess shouted. She and Nancy exchanged high fives. George and Phoebe, across the room, were smiling happily.



Nancy turned to look at Brenda. She wasn’t smiling at all.
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    Later at lunch, while Phoebe, Bess, and George were eating and talking about their big win, Nancy got out her blue detective notebook. She wrote:
    I’m really glad we won first prize. Phoebe told Mrs. Reynolds about what she did, and she even told Brenda that she didn’t have to sharpen pencils for her. So everything turned out okay.
    Mrs. Reynolds said that writing stories is easier and more fun when you work as a team. It’s really true.
    Plus, it goes for solving mysteries, too!
    Case closed.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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