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    Aven Green Sleuthing Machine
    Aven Green Sleuthing Machine
    Aven Green Sleuthing Machine
    Ebook87 pages59 minutes

    Aven Green Sleuthing Machine

    By Dusti Bowling and Gina Perry

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    Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a really long time—a whole month! 

    She’s solved many important cases like The Mystery of the Cranky Mom, The Mystery of the Missing Ice Cream, and The Mystery of the Smelly Feet. Her record is nearly 100% (only The Mystery of the Cereal in My Underpants remains unsolved to this day). Aven asks all the right questions, wields her detective kit carefully, and follows up on every clue. Then her teacher’s lunch bag (with her lunch still in it) is taken and Aven’s great-grandma’s beloved dog goes missing! Can this perceptive detective crack two cases at the same time? Luckily, Aven has a super-powered brain full of lots of extra brain cells to take on both cases. See, she was born without arms, so all of the cells that were supposed to make her arms went into making her brain instead. At least that’s her working theory for The Mystery of Why I Have So Many Extra Brain Cells.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnion Square Kids
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    ISBN9781454941842
    Aven Green Sleuthing Machine

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      I loved Aven in Insignificant Events, but this younger version doesn't charm me -- she's kind of bratty and obnoxious. I particularly didn't enjoy her not-so-subtle comments about kids she thinks aren't as smart as her. Perhaps a younger audience will enjoy her adventures, but despite the appealing illustrations and format, it just didn't work for me.

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    Aven Green Sleuthing Machine - Dusti Bowling

    Chapter 1

    The Whole Truth

    Most people don’t realize it, but there are a lot of mysteries to solve in elementary school. I’m only in the third grade, but I’ve been solving mysteries for a really, really, really long time—one whole month.

    And I don’t solve mysteries like any old detective. Nope. You see, I don’t have arms. Yep, you heard me. No arms here on my torso, which I’d like to add is already eight years old.

    Here, I’ll say it again, as you may not have understood me correctly, because most people don’t have as many brain cells as I do: I don’t have any arms or fingers or hands or elbows or forearms or biceps. I just have shoulders, but nothing under them.

    You’re probably wondering why I don’t have arms. People are always curious where they went. Well, they weren’t eaten off by iguanas in the Galapagos. Just try saying that ten times really fast: iguanas in the Galapagos, iguanas in the Galapagos. My tongue already got all twisted.

    My arms weren’t pulled off in a particularly ruthless game of tug of war. They weren’t blown off by a firecracker, and they weren’t flattened by a steamroller.

    Nope. The truth is I was just born like this. I know, I know. Boring stuff. But that’s the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, which my parents make me tell. Otherwise I would have told you a much more interesting story about how they got scrubbed off at the Kansas City Quick Car Wash.

    Anyway, I’ve already solved many mysteries with my brain of many brain cells. In case you don’t know what a brain cell is, it’s like the building block of the brain. Really, cells are the building blocks of everything that’s alive, but they’re not rectangular. They’re more like blobby circles so tiny you need a microscope to see them.

    The very first mysteries I ever solved were The Mystery of the Missing Ice Cream and The Mystery of the Sticky Floor. Here’s the story of those two: one day the mint chip ice cream went missing from the freezer. It simply disappeared like a disappearing magician or something!

    There was nothing but a trail of melty, sticky green drops left behind. Mom and I followed the trail to the kitchen table, where there was still a big circle of melted green ice cream. I had a hunch that it came from a bowl. There was also a spoon left behind with sticky toe prints all over it. Mom and I followed the ice cream trail away from the kitchen table all the way to the trash can, where we found the empty ice cream box!

    So mysteries are easy to solve when you’re the culprit. In case you don’t know what a culprit is, it’s the person who did the crime. And then their parents make them do the time—the time-out, that is.

    I then went on to solve The Mystery of the Bad Breath and The Mystery of the Smelly Feet. Those were pretty easy to solve, too. Just a little toothpaste and soap was all I needed.

    Of course there are some cases even my brain of many brain cells can’t solve. The Mystery of the Cereal in My Underpants is still unsolved to this very day.

    Chapter 2

    Who, Why, Where, When, and What

    I like to write down all the mysteries I solve, so I can keep track of them. I’ve solved so many at this point, Mom had to get me a new pack of paper to keep writing them down. She also helps me organize my mysteries into

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