Middle Grade Mystery / Spy / Detective
Date Published: 04-28-2022
Publisher: Fitzroy Books / Regal House
Things don’t usually come to a screeching halt at the RAT, also known as
Ridgewood Arts & Technical School, Ridgewood City’s most prestigious
progressive institution. But that’s what happens when Headmistress Hardaway
interrupts class and announces, “A scandal has rocked the fundraising
committee!” Everyone is a suspect and Hunter Jackson, student council
special investigator, vows to root out the student who’s heartless enough to
steal donation money. He’s not alone. Ridgewood Roar news editor, Anthony
Ravello, and the rogue, indie-press pioneer, Liberty Lennon, plan to do some
journalistic digging of their own in a race against each other to scoop the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to their faithful
readers…or at least their versions of it. With the truth getting murkier by
the day, students at the RAT gobble up news bytes and wash them down with
locker-side gossip as they try to unmask the classmate responsible for the
missing funds.
About the Author
Frank Morelli is the author of the young adult novels On the Way to
Birdland (2021) and No Sad Songs (2018), a YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant
Readers nominee and winner of an American Fiction Award for best coming of
age story. His fiction and essays have been featured in various publications
including The Saturday Evening Post, Cobalt Review, Philadelphia Stories,
and Highlights Magazine. A Philadelphia native, Morelli now resides in High
Point, NC with a brilliant illustrator and his fur babies.
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