Calendar Mysteries #4: April Adventure by Ron Roy

Author:Ron Roy
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Chapter Books, Holidays & Celebrations, Juvenile Fiction, Readers, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Easter & Lent
ISBN: 9780375861161
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

It took only a few minutes to walk to Indian Way Road, where Mr. Pocket lived. Bradley brought Pal. Pal liked to play with Randolph, Mr. Pocket’s dog.

The kids climbed up Mr. Pocket’s porch. Bradley rang the bell. They heard barking from inside. A man’s voice said, “Hush, Randolph!”

Then Pal barked, too. His big tail swung back and forth.

The door opened, and Mr. Pocket smiled at the kids. “Well, hello,” he said. He was holding a fluffy dog in his arms. “Look, Randolph, we have company!”

Randolph wriggled to get down to play with Pal. Pal tugged on his leash to reach Randolph.

“Hi, Mr. Pocket,” Bradley said. “We were wondering if we could ask you some questions.”

Mr. Pocket raised his bushy white eyebrows. “Questions about what?” he asked.

“About missing Easter eggs!” Nate said.

“Oooh, a mystery!” Mr. Pocket said. “Come right in!”

The four kids and Pal trooped into Mr. Pocket’s living room.

Mr. Pocket set Randolph on the floor. “You can let Pal off his leash,” he told Bradley. Bradley did, and the two dogs began to wrestle.

“Please, come in the kitchen,” Mr. Pocket said. “I have something on the stove.”

Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy followed Mr. Pocket. He walked over to the stove and stirred something in a pot. “Do you kids like spinach?” he asked.

“No!” shouted Nate and Brian.

“Yes!” shouted Bradley and Lucy.

Mr. Pocket laughed. “Don’t worry, I won’t make you eat any,” he said. “Actually, I’m boiling dandelion greens. They taste even better than spinach.”

“You eat dandelions?” Nate asked. “My parents pull them up and throw them away. Aren’t dandelions just weeds?”

“Yes, they are weeds,” Mr. Pocket said. “But if you pick the leaves before the yellow blossoms open, they make a delicious meal. I just boil them for a few minutes, then add a little butter, salt, and pepper. Yum!”

Mr. Pocket set down his mixing spoon. “Now, what about this egg mystery?” he asked.

The kids told him how Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose hid some plastic eggs for them to find. “But they also hid four real eggs,” Bradley went on. “They painted them gold. They said that if we found them, we would get a treasure!”

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