The Mystery of the Blue Ring

By Patricia Reilly Giff and Blanche Sims

Second-grader Dawn Bosco puts her mystery-solving skills to the test when her former best friend, Emily Arrow, loses her birthday ring Dawn Bosco and Emily Arrow used to be best friends, until Dawn took Emily’s unicorn. Even though Dawn eventually gave it back, Emily still won’t talk to her. When Emily’s blue birthday ring goes missing after art class, the rest of the second grade accuses Dawn of stealing it. Dawn sets out to solve the mystery herself to prove she is innocent—and maybe get her best friend back. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Patricia Reilly Giff including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Release date: Jun 28, 2011
• ISBN: 9781453220399

Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Kids of the Polk Street School books and the Polka Dot Private Eye books. Several of her novels for older readers have been chosen as ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Books and ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. She won the Newbery Honor for Lily's Crossing (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book) and Pictures of Hollis Woods. She lives in Connecticut.

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The Mystery of the Blue Ring

Patricia Reilly Giff

Illustrated by Blanche Sims

For my dear Catherine Van Slyck

with love

Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

A Biography of Patricia Reilly Giff

CHAPTER 1

IT WAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

Dawn Bosco turned the page of her book. She wanted to get to the end before art.

She had to find out about the secret in the old house.

Ms. Rooney looked up. Dawn, are you listening?

Dawn closed her book.

Today is Good Vegetable Day, said Ms. Rooney.

Dawn rolled her pencil down her desk.

She hated vegetables.

She thought about the girl in her book, Diane the Detective.

Dawn wished she could be a detective, too.

She wished she could solve a mystery. A scary one.

Who has a favorite vegetable? asked Ms. Rooney.

Jason Bazyk waved his hand. Apples, he said.

That’s not a vegetable, said Timothy Barbiero.

How about spinach? asked Ms. Rooney. Or cabbage?

Yuck, Dawn said.

Next to her, Emily Arrow said yuck, too.

Dawn looked at Emily.

Sometimes they were friends. Sometimes they weren’t.

She had done something bad to Emily.

She had taken her unicorn.

That was weeks ago, though. She had given it back.

Maybe Emily didn’t remember it anymore. Dawn hoped not.

The bell rang. It was time for art.

Dawn raced to the front of the line. She edged in ahead of Emily.

Dawn loved to be first.

Emily gave her a little push.

Emily liked to be first, too.

They marched into the art room.

On every table were lumps of gray stuff. There were little bowls of water, too.

Dawn wondered what they were for.

Mrs. Kara, the art teacher, clapped her hands. Today is Good Vegetable Day.

I’m sick of vegetables, said Jason.

Dawn was sick of vegetables, too. She poked her finger into the gray stuff.

It was soft. Gooey.

It

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It was pretty interesting to read and I enjoyed reading it