The Ice Cream Scoop by Carolyn Keene

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

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Pineapple-Papaya Crush

Nancy gulped. The one customer who ordered pineapple-papaya crush at the Double Dip was Mike Minelli!

Her mind began to race. Was this just a coincidence? Or did it mean something?

Nancy stared at the two fat scoops of ice cream. They were yellowish white with chunks of bright yellow and pinkish orange. Her stomach did a flip-flop. Pineapple-papaya crush looks awful, she thought. It figures that Mike would like it!

Everyone was saying goodbye. Nancy could only nod. She was quiet during the ride home, too. Carson Drew ruffled her hair and said, “Tired, Pumpkin Ice Cream? We’ll be home in a minute.”

Nancy usually told her father everything. When she had a mystery to solve, he made good suggestions. But that night she wasn’t ready to talk. She needed some time to figure things out.

Nancy brushed her teeth as fast as she could. Then she put on her pink-checked pajamas and got into bed. She opened her notebook and read what she had written:

“10 gallons pineapple-papaya crush. To the Double Dip. Who ordered it?”

Nancy began to ask herself questions. Does Mike Minelli have something to do with the phony ice cream order? Is he trying to help his brother’s girlfriend get back at Cathy Perez? Did he guess that Cathy would put his favorite ice cream on sale?

Nancy wrote these questions on the same page. Then she turned out the light. She tried to sleep, but more ice cream worries kept popping into her mind.

Would other strange things happen at the Double Dip? Would Donna Kepler find a way to close down the shop? Suppose Sugar ’n’ Spice and the Double Dip both went out of business! Two nice people would lose their shops. The neighborhood would have no ice cream place!

Nancy tossed and turned. Thinking about ice cream was giving her a headache. She was afraid she would never fall asleep. But a few minutes later, she did. The next thing she knew, it was Sunday morning. Sunlight was streaming through her bedroom window.

Nancy jumped out of bed and washed up. She knew it would be fun to watch Sid Alden make his delicious ice cream. She put on her red, long-sleeved Sandburg Elementary School T-shirt and jeans. She ran downstairs to the kitchen. Hannah was making waffles.

After breakfast with her father, Nancy had time to read the Sunday comics. Then she rode her bike to Sugar ’n’ Spice. When she got there, Mike Minelli was locking up his bike. Bess and George arrived a minute later.

The shop didn’t open for customers until noon. Bess knocked on the door. Bobby Alden let them in and took them to the back room.

“Here it is,” Sid said, grinning. “The machine that makes the great stuff you eat!”

He pointed to something that looked like a narrow, stainless-steel washing machine. It had a round door on the front. On the top was a shallow sink and water spigot.

Sid opened the door. Nancy and the others crowded around. They saw a large cylinder inside. Round steel blades spiraled down the middle of the cylinder.

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