Sam the Man & the Secret Detective Club Plan by Frances O'Roark Dowell & Amy June Bates

Author:Frances O'Roark Dowell & Amy June Bates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

The members of the World’s Best Detective Club met outside Mr. Truman’s office as soon as their buses dropped them off at school the next morning. Sam had called Gavin the night before to tell him about Mr. Stockfish’s idea, and then Gavin called everyone else to tell them to meet.

“I think that officially makes me the club’s communications director,” Gavin said. “That’s what my mom told me. She said I could put it on my résumé.”

“What’s a résumé?” Marja asked.

“It’s a piece of paper where you make a list of all the good stuff you’ve done so you can get a job,” Gavin told her. “I started writing mine last night. So far I’ve got ‘cleaned my room the day before school started’ and ‘remembered to put my used Kleenex in the trash two weeks ago.’ Oh, and I put that I’m communications director for our club, which means I’m the person who calls everyone.”

“I got a kitten out of a tree once,” Rashid said. “Could I put that on my résumé?”

“I think so,” Gavin said. “It would be especially good if you wanted a job as a tree climber.”

“Or a cat saver,” Will said.

“I like dogs better than cats,” Marja said.

“So you would have just left that cat up the tree?” Gavin asked.

Marja thought about this. “I guess not,” she said after a moment. “But if there was a dog up the same tree, I’d save it first.”

Mr. Truman poked his head out of his door. “I thought I heard somebody out here. Do you guys need something, or is this just where you decided to hang out this morning?”

“Do you have time to answer a few questions about a snake?” Sam asked.

“A snake?” Mr. Truman looked alarmed.

“Not a real snake!” Sam added quickly. “A stuffed snake.”

“About six feet long?” Gavin added.

“With purple and pink and blue stripes?” Emily said.

“Come in,” Mr. Truman said, waving the children into his office. “The snake you’re describing sounds familiar.”

“Did you know it was in the lost and found?” Sam asked as he followed Mr. Truman inside. “It was buried under a ton of jackets.”

“I think this school has set the record for lost jackets,” Mr. Truman said. “I find at least six in the cafeteria every day. Most of them have name tags inside, but there’s always one that doesn’t. So the snake was in the lost and found?”

“Mrs. Mason said it’s been in there since the second week of school,” Emily informed him.

“That’s a clue!” Gavin said, sounding like he’d just realized this.

“Shhh!” Marja said.

Mr. Truman took a seat behind his desk. “Here’s what I can tell you about that snake,” he said, leaning back with his hands clasped behind his head. “It showed up in Mrs. Ybarra’s classroom on the first day of school. I noticed it when I was emptying trash cans at the end of the day. It was pushed against the wall, but it was near a row of desks, like it belonged to somebody, but that student had been asked to put it a little bit out of the way.

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