Who Stole Mr. T? (Leila and Nugget Mystery Book 1) by Deserae Brady & Dustin Brady

Author:Deserae Brady & Dustin Brady [Brady, Deserae]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

The A-Team

Javy ran up the stairs with tears in his eyes. “DAD!” he yelled. “DAD, HOW COULD YOU?!”

“I told you,” Kait said to Leila as she turned to follow Javy up the stairs.

“Save it,” Leila mumbled.

Upstairs, Mr. Martinez had Javy wrapped in his arms. Nugget had also squeezed himself between the father and son, trying to get a free hug. “What’s wrong?” Mr. Martinez kept asking.

“He was a good turtle!” Javy said between sobs. “He was such a good turtle! How could you give him away?”

“Give him away? I didn’t give him away!” Mr. Martinez said. He looked at Javy, then at Leila and Kait. “Why would you even think that?”

“We followed the clues!” Kait said proudly.

“Clues? What clues?”

Javy laid out all the clues for his father the best he could between tears. “There aren’t any turtle tracks outside (sob), and Mrs. Crenshaw saw you holding Mr. T this morning (sob), and then you packed all his stuff in a box to give away (sob).”

“Oh Javy,” Mr. Martinez said. “I would never give Mr. T away. You know that.”

“But the box…”

“I packed his stuff to keep it safe during the construction,” Mr. Martinez said.

“But you’re the only one who left the house,” Kait said. “And Mr. T isn’t here, so you had to have taken him somewhere.”

Mr. Martinez seemed annoyed for a second that the neighbor girl kept accusing him of lying, but he could see how upset this was making Javy. He took a breath and slowed things down a bit. “Javy, have I ever told you how Mr. T got in this family?”

Javy shrugged. “You got him a long time ago, right?”

“Not just a long time ago. I got him when I was exactly your age.”

Leila gasped. “But that means that Mr. T must be…” she trailed off.

“Old?” Mr. Martinez offered.

Leila blushed.

“Mr. T is actually 32,” Mr. Martinez said. “That’s a pretty old pet, huh?”

Leila nodded.

“In third grade, I had a teacher named Mrs. Stanley. Mrs. Stanley was my favorite teacher ever, mostly because she kept a family of turtles right there in the classroom. She nicknamed the turtles the A-Team after the TV show.”

Everyone stared blankly at Mr. Martinez.

“The A-Team? You guys know the A-Team, right? They’d make like flamethrowers out of gas pumps and… You know what? It’s not important. The important thing is that Mrs. Stanley had a rule where if you got an “A” on your homework, you got to help feed the A-Team that day. I wasn’t always the best student, but I loved those turtles so much that I worked extra hard and crushed my homework that year. One turtle in particular was my favorite.”

“Mr. T?” Javy asked.

Mr. Martinez nodded. “We started doing this thing where I would hold the food up in the air, and he would jump for it. He wouldn’t do it for anyone else — just me.”

“His jump trick?” Javy asked. “I thought all turtles did that.”

“It’s very rare,” Mr. Martinez said. “Anyways, I started coming in early and staying late just to hang out with Mr.

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