Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his
fifth-grade year, he''s working on a big one. How can his school in
the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are
going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in
western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school,
you lose the town.
But the mystery that has Ted''s full attention at the moment is
about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the
Andersons'' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons
moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded
up tight. At least it''s supposed to be.
A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an
empty house. At first these facts don''t seem to be related. But Ted
Hammond learns that in a very small town, there''s no such thing as
an isolated event. And the
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FRINDLE. Over ten million of his books have sold to date and he has
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has a BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts. He has
illustrated a number of book covers and his work has been exhibited
at the Society of Illustrators and the Art Directors Guild. Mark
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