The Mystery of the Missing Everything by Ben H. Winters

Author:Ben H. Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins US

A few weeks earlier, Braxton Lashey had been simultaneously doing the dishes and buying movie tickets over the phone when the cell phone slipped out from under his ear and fell in the garbage disposal.

He fished it out, but now some of the buttons didn’t work anymore, and the autofill function was kind of out of control. So when Braxton texted his buddy Ellis Walters, at about four thirty on Saturday afternoon—right as Marisol Pierce was hanging up with Lisa Deckter—to say can you help me find a place to rent a bear suit, Ellis got a text that said can your hemispheric placebo bear fruit?

Ellis texted back that makes no sense.

Braxton started to type a reply, then opted to just call. “Yo. Chester’s making this video to save Taproot Valley, and I need to dress in a bear suit and fall down a flight of stairs.”

“Oh,” said Ellis. “That still makes no sense.”

Nevertheless, half an hour later, in a costume shop owned by a friend of Ellis’s mom from church, the two boys were intently debating which kind of bear would be funniest.

“I’m thinking grizzly,” said Braxton.

“No, man, panda,” countered Ellis. “You gotta go panda.”

It was the same all over town. Everyone on the Save Taproot Valley team, everyone Chester had gathered at the picnic benches on Wednesday afternoon, was way too psyched to keep it to themselves.

“Hey, Tucker, you’ve got a digital video camera, right?” said Todd.

“Ezra? It’s Rory. What rhymes with fire ants?”

“Shelly! Can you come to my room for a second?” yelled Suzie. “I have a question about site hosting.”

“Um, Reenie? It’s Natasha. I need someone really smart to help me figure out these dances. You’re, like, a genius, right?”

Only one person, of all the many people invited that day to help out, declined the invitation.

“Victor? Hey! It’s Carmine. Dude, so, Lindsey heard from Lisa, who got a call from Marisol Pierce, about this crazy video project that Chester is organizing. The Save Taproot Valley project? Have you heard about this?”

“Yes. I have,” Victor replied coolly. He was in his room, working on the flood plain he and Bethesda were building for Mr. Darlington’s class, carefully placing doomed LEGO people in their rickety wooden seaside huts.

“Well, so, we’re all gonna meet after school this week to make the movie. Are you in?”

“No. I’m busy.”

“But I didn’t even tell you what day yet.”

Victor Glebe hung up the phone and got back to work on his diorama.

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