The Pen Pal Puzzle by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Nancy could feel her face get hot. “I thought you might have seen them.”

“I didn’t take your letters!” Phoebe shouted. “Now leave us alone!”

Nancy walked back to her table. She was no closer to finding her letters than before.

5

Returned Letters

After lunch Nancy’s class studied spelling and science. Nancy tried to concentrate on her work, but her mind kept drifting back to her missing letters.

Nancy glanced over at Phoebe. Phoebe was still Nancy’s main suspect. But Nancy still had no proof. She needed a clue. Nancy decided she’d watch Phoebe extra carefully at school.

“Ms. Spencer.” Phoebe waved her hand in the air to get the teacher’s attention.

“Yes, Phoebe?” Ms. Spencer said.

“May I go to the bathroom?”

Ms. Spencer nodded, and Phoebe went up to the front of the class to get the bathroom pass.

“Me, too,” Brenda said, waving her hand in the air. “I have to go, too.”

“Okay, Brenda,” Ms. Spencer said.

Nancy watched Brenda and Phoebe rush out the door. They almost collided with Andrew Leoni.

“Why don’t you watch where you’re going!” Brenda said loudly.

“Why don’t you?” Andrew said.

Nancy noticed Andrew was rubbing his arm where Brenda had bumped into him.

Phoebe must have noticed, too. “Did you hurt your arm?” she asked him

“Nah.” Andrew shook his head. “I just got a shot at the doctor’s. It’s a little sore.”

“Phoebe, come on,” Brenda ordered. “We don’t have all day.”

Nancy wondered why Phoebe was hanging around with Brenda. Brenda was always bossing her around.

After Brenda and Phoebe returned, Ms. Spencer announced it was time for reading. “I want everyone to pair up and read to each other. You may choose any book you like,” she said.

Nancy loved reading. She was paired with Bess. George was paired with Emily Reeves.

“Can we read from your fairy tale book?” Bess asked. “The one you got from the library?”

“Sure,” Nancy said. “I left it in my cubby on the bottom shelf.”

Bess asked permission to go to the cubbies. A moment later she was back with the book.

Nancy liked fairy tales. She and Bess took turns reading to each other. The reading period flew by. When the final bell rang, Nancy and Bess walked out together. They stopped at Nancy’s cubby first. Bess put Nancy’s book back where she found it. Then she went to her own cubby to get her jacket.

“Want to go with me to the Bell on the way home?” Bess asked. The Bell was short for the School Bell, a small store near the school.

“Okay. Is George coming with us?” Nancy asked.

“No. She has to work on her book report,” Bess said.

Nancy took her jacket off the hook. She noticed something on the top shelf of her cubby: several folded pieces of paper.

What are these? she wondered. They weren’t here when I got back from lunch.

She reached for them and gasped.

Pamela’s letters!

Bess threw her arms around Nancy and hugged her. “That’s great. You have your letters back. Now your poster will be perfect!”

Nancy flipped through the letters. All four of them were there. “But the envelopes with the stamps on them are still missing,” Nancy said.

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