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THE KARI AND LUCAS MYSTERIES:
THE
MYSTERY
OF
THE
THIRD
LUCRETIA
CHAPTER
1
Beginnings
My
name
is
Kari
Sundgren.
This story is
about how my best friend Lucas and I solved a big, international art
crime, and all the adventures we had doing it. Lucas is Lucas
Stickney. She's a girl.
My ninth grade English book says when you're telling a complicated
story, unless you're a real expert, it's usually best to begin at the
beginning and go all the way to the end. That makes sense.
But since I read that, I've noticed that finding the beginning of a
story, especially when your story is a complicated one, isn't always as
easy as it sounds. Some stories don't seem to have a beginning. They
just sort of happen because of a lot of things that have been going on
for a long time. And some stories have too many beginnings. You could
start almost anywhere. (Read
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RESCUING SENECA CRANE
CHAPTER 1
Prelude
The first time I saw Seneca Crane she came onstage at a Minnesota
Orchestra concert, sat down at the piano, and played a Mozart concerto.
She got a standing ovation.
She was thirteen
then, just a year older than I was. She was wearing a short, shimmery
silver dress, and her hair was in cornrows and long braids.
I was sitting near the front with my mom and my best friend, Lucas
(who's a girl), so we could see Seneca up close. She was pretty, with
smooth skin a little darker than coffee ice cream, a cute little
pointed chin, a small nose, and a long, graceful neck.
But when she came out and made that little bow musicians make before
they play, what I mostly noticed were her eyes. They were big and dark
and sparkly, the kind of eyes that show everything the person behind
them is feeling. And just then, even though she was smiling, her eyes
looked terrified. (Read
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ADVENTURE AT SIMBA
HILL
CHAPTER 1
Camellia,
Lucas,
and
the Personal Cooling System
ONE WORD and i hack u 2 pieces and throw u 2 the
hyenas.
One word about what?
I stared at my phone. The text was from my best friend, Lucas Stickney.
We’re both girls.
I texted back, wtm? That stood for what the meep? Meep is
what Lucas and I substitute for the kind of words fourteen year olds
like us aren’t allowed to say in front of adults, and using it has kind
of gotten to be a habit.
The text came back. STARVING hyenas.
I still had no clue.
It was a snowy Sunday afternoon in December. Mom was on the other end
of the couch leafing through a magazine as we watched old 30 Rock
episodes from Netflix. She must have seen my expression out of the
corner of her eye, because she looked up from the page and said,
“What’s going on?”
I did a palms up, but before I could tell her, I heard people coming up
the stairs to our duplex. The next second there was a knock.
The minute I opened the door I understood. (Read More)
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