"A Paula Wiseman book."

Jesse is on the case when money goes missing from the library and her dad is looking like the #1 suspect in Edgar Awardwinning author Susan Vaughts latest middle grade mystery. When the cops show up at Jesses house and arrest her dad, she figures out in a hurry that hes the #1 suspect in the missing library fund money case. With the help of her (first and only) friend Springer, she rounds up suspects (leading to a nasty confrontation with three notorious school bullies) and asks a lot of questions. But she cant shake the feeling that she isnt exactly cut out for being a crime-solving hero. Jesse has a neuro-processing disorder, which means that shes “on the spectrum or whatever.” As she explains it, “I get stuck on lots of stuff, like words and phrases and numbers and smells and pictures and song lines and what time stuff is supposed to happen.” But when a tornado strikes her small town, Jesse is given the opportunity to show what she's really made ofand help her dad.Told with the true-as-life voice Susan Vaught is known for, this mystery will have you rooting for Jesse and her trusty Pomeranian, Sam-Sam.