Stolen Treasure by Betty Jacobson Hechtman

Author:Betty Jacobson Hechtman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: chicago, egypt, babysitting, homework, teenager, museums
Publisher: Betty Jacobson Hechtman

Chapter Thirteen

My mother surprises us with a new hamburger dish for dinner. This one she calls Indian curry. It’s meat and peas with curry powder mixed in. She serves it over rice. Not that I’m hungry, anyway. I have way too much on my mind. Friday is coming closer and closer every second.

All during dinner, my brother-the-brain just keeps talking about college. Mostly, it’s about where he’d like to go. My parents keep looking at each other and shaking their heads. I guess they’re all expensive schools.

For once, I’m glad everyone is ignoring me.

After dinner, I look at what I have written down for my report and open the one book on soybeans I have. It’s so boring, I almost go to sleep reading it. This just isn’t going to work. Unless I come up with something better, my report is going to stink.

I’m trying to think what to do when this idea hits me. I can’t use the school library now, but there’s 57th Street Books. They’re real nice about letting you look around and read before you buy. They even have places to sit.

My parents must still be freaked out about my brother’s college thing, because they barely notice when I tell them I’m going to the bookstore.

57th Street Books is real cool. Since it’s in the basement of an apartment building, the only view you get from the windows is feet going by—except you can see whole dogs. I go into the second room, the one that has books on food. The trouble is, the only books they have on soybeans are cookbooks. I look through them anyway, hoping I’ll find something exciting.

The bookstore is pretty quiet, but I keep noticing people going to the next room. After a while, I get curious and follow a man in a blue sports jacket. I’m surprised to see rows of chairs and a table in front. Then I see the sign and remember. It’s the same sign Yvonne and I noticed on the window advertising the talk Shane’s mother is doing about her book. She’s off standing in the corner talking to one of the people who works at the bookstore. I check out the chairs for Shane, but he’s not there.

Nobody seems to be sitting in the first row, so I take a seat on the end of it. Who knows? Maybe her book has something about soybeans in it.

“Good evening, everyone,” the bookstore employee says, standing in front of the table. “I have the honor to introduce tonight’s speaker, Sophia Calavedo, author of Cindi and Akhenaten. It’s part of the Time Travelers’ series.”

Everyone applauds, and I get the feeling there’s not much chance she’ll be saying anything about soybeans.

Sophia Calavedo comes up behind the table. Her golden hair, which is the same color as Shane’s, is done up in a bun thing. She’s wearing the same black dress she had on for the Albanys’ party, but she’s added a jacket and different jewelry. I bet she’s the kind who has one of those mix-and-match wardrobes I always see in magazines.

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