Casper's Paper Caper

By Helen Ackerman

See if you can help solve what happened to Mrs. Miller and who is taking her newspaper. Chris enlists her friend Lisa for one mystery and her little brother, Joey, for the other. All this takes place in a very quiet little town where nothing exciting ever happens.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jan 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466974494

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Casper’s

Paper Caper

Written by Helen Ackerman

Illustrations by Lyle Jakosalem

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© Copyright 2013 Helen Ackerman.

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Illustrations by Lyle Jakosalem

Created in the United States of America.

ISBN: 978-1-4669-7448-7 (sc)

978-1-4669-7449-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012924244

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Dedicated to my Aunt Ann Wheat.

She always talked about writing children’s books but died before she had the chance to.

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M om, I’m going to go to the newspaper to cash up now, yelled Chris as she raced down the stairs, pushing her glasses up on her nose as she headed for the front door.

"Don’t dillydally. It’s going to be getting dark soon," called Mom from the kitchen. Chris knew that her mom wouldn’t worry too much because Casper, New York, was a small town in Central New York. In Casper, everyone knew everyone, and the adults pretty much kept an eye on each other’s children. The worst crime that ever happened was harmless teenage pranks, all on Halloween. Although there was the time that old Mr. Perkins forgot his glasses after having a few cocktails on New Year’s Eve and started driving down the sidewalk instead of the road. He said he did it because of all the drunks on the road that night, but everyone knew that he was the one that was drunk. Overall, though, it was a great place to grow up. Casper was big enough so that there was always something to do, but small enough so Chris and her close friend Lisa could ride their bikes to whatever they wanted