Coop Knows the Scoop
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- €7.99
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Publisher Description
2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery
From award-winning author Taryn Souders comes a charming, southern middle grade mystery perfect for fans of Stranger Things and the Masterminds series.
The whole town is talking about what's buried beneath the playground...
Windy Bottom, Georgia is usually a peaceful place. Coop helps his mom at her café and bookstore, hangs out with his grandpa, bikes around with his friends Justice and Liberty, and is determined to live up to his dad's legacy. Windy Bottom is full of all kinds of interesting people, but no one has ever caused a problem. Until now.
And somehow, Gramps is taking all the blame! It seems like there are a lot of secrets that were buried in their small town after all...
Will Coop and his friends get to the bottom of the mystery and clear Gramps's name before it's too late?
You will love Coop and his adventures if you are looking for:
• Mystery books for kids 9-12
• Heartfelt and quirky stories for young readers
• Kids detective books
• 5th grade mystery books
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After his dad died five years ago, 13-year-old Coop and his mother moved to Windy Bottom, Ga., to live with the boy's paternal grandfather. Construction at the local playground unearths a skeleton that is soon revealed to be that of Coop's grandmother, who left when Coop's dad was young. Everyone assumed she had abandoned the family a terse note from the fashionable woman said she had to get away from small-town life but it now seems that she was murdered. Suspects begin to emerge, from the town funeral director, who bakes muffins that reek of formaldehyde, to a family that has long hated Coop's. When his grand-father becomes a person of interest, Coop, an avid mystery reader who has just come into his father's old Hardy Boys books, becomes determined to find out who committed the crime, even if that person is Gramps. Delightfully quirky townsfolk and details of small-town life create the perfect backdrop for this deftly plotted mystery by Souders (How to Ruin Your Summer). Well-placed red herrings and clues will have readers guessing until the truth comes out. Ages 8 12.
