Fossil Frenzy by Franklin W. Dixon & Scott Burroughs

Author:Franklin W. Dixon & Scott Burroughs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

“Okay, well, we should go. Aunt Gertrude wants us to help clean the garage, remember? Then we need to work on the case,” Frank reminded him.

Joe stood up. “But we already solved the case. Aisha was lying. She stole Tico’s fossil. Now we just have to make her confess and give it back to him.”

Just then Tico came running down the hall. “Frank! Joe! I found my fossil!” he exclaimed.

7

A Three-Thousand-Dollar Mystery

You found your fossil?” Joe asked Tico excitedly. “Did Aisha give it back to you?”

Tico stopped in front of Joe’s cubby. He frowned, confused. “What? No, not Aisha— Adam. I heard him talking about my fossil with Melissa and Todd,” he explained.

Adam! Joe thought. I should have known!

“So you think Adam has it?” Frank prompted Tico.

“I know Adam has it. He told Melissa and Todd he owned a rare dinosaur tooth fossil. He offered to sell it to them for ten dollars,” Tico replied.

“Seriously? Where is he now?” Joe asked.

“Outside,” Tico replied.

“Come on. We have to stop him!” Joe said. He grabbed his backpack and started running down the hall. Frank and Tico followed.

When the three boys got outside, they found Adam standing near the idling school buses with Melissa Jones and her brother, Todd. Joe noticed that Adam was wearing a Bandits baseball cap that was several sizes too small for him. It also had a small stain on the rim.

Just like my Bandits cap, Joe thought, clenching his fists.

“Hey, Adam? Where’d you get that hat?” Joe demanded.

“I found it in some loser’s cubby,” Adam said, and then smirked.

“That’s my hat. Give it back!” Joe fumed.

“Relax. Deep breaths,” Frank whispered to Joe.

Joe was beyond trying to relax. Why did Adam have to be such a jerk all the time?

“Hey, Hardys? You’re interrupting our important meeting,” Melissa snapped. She pulled a small pink mirror out of her backpack and smiled at her reflection. She and Todd had been in a TV commercial once, and they thought they were celebrities—especially Melissa.

“Yeah. Melissa and Todd were about to pay me a lot of money for a very important artifat,” Adam explained.

“You mean arti fact. And it’s my artifact,” Tico snapped.

“You mean this?” Adam held out his fist and uncurled his fingers.

Tico’s dinosaur tooth!

Or was it? Joe leaned in to study it closely. On first inspection it looked like Tico’s dinosaur tooth. It was brown and curved, and it was the right size.

But on closer inspection Joe saw that the color wasn’t quite right.

He reached over and grabbed it quickly before Adam could stop him.

“Hey! That’s mine! Give it back!” Adam shouted.

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