An unsent letter in a first edition copy of Charlotte's Web leads to
a hunt for treasure in this heartwarming middle grade mystery from the
author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club.
Now that Truly Lovejoy's father has been injured by an IED in
Afghanistan and is having trouble finding work back home, the family
moves from Texas to tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, to take over
Lovejoy's Books, a struggling bookstore that's been in the family for
one hundred years.
With two older brothers and two younger sisters clamoring for attention,
her mother back in school, and everyone up to their eyebrows trying to
keep Lovejoy's Books afloat, Truly feels more overlooked than usual. So
she pours herself into uncovering the mystery of an undelivered letter
she finds stuck in a valuable autographed first edition of Charlotte's
Web, which subsequently goes missing from the bookshop. What's inside
the envelope leads Truly and her new Pumpkin Falls friends on a madcap
treasure hunt around town, chasing clues that could spell danger.
Fans of Heather Vogel Frederick's Mother-Daughter Book Club series "will
rejoice for a new series with a similarly cozy New England setting,
great characters, and literary references to beloved classics" (School
Library Journal).