By Maureen Sherry
After their father, a video-game inventor, moves it wealthy, the Smithfork little ones locate they hate their new lifestyles. They circulate from their comfortable Brooklyn local to a swanky condo on Manhattan's 5th street. they've got no acquaintances, a nanny who takes where in their mom and dad, and a faculty yr looming forward that gives you to be miserable.
And then, in the future, Brid, CJ, and Patrick notice an superb mystery approximately their condo: the unique proprietor, the deceased multimillionaire Mr. publish, in the past became the condo itself right into a massive puzzle containing a mysterious publication and hidden panels—a puzzle that, with a few good fortune, braveness, and brainpower, will result in learning the submit family members fortune. Unraveling the secret motives them to race via today's long island City—and to discover a few long-hidden secrets and techniques of the past.
Maureen Sherry's page-turning debut novel is full of event, intrigue, and center.
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ISBN: 0224614622
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Publisher: Doubleday
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Author identify: joan aiken (Born: 1924/09/04 / Died: 2004/01/04)
Author Description: Joan Delano Aiken used to be a far enjoyed English author who obtained the MBE for providers quite to Children's Literature. This yr marks the fiftieth ANNIVERSARY of her most famed vintage children's booklet, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, that's being celebrated with occasions at Cheltenham competition within the united kingdom and at a distinct occasion in long island in October, and with the book of 3 fresh variants of the e-book and a brand new AUDIO recorded via her daughter Lizza.
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29 A scrapbook journal is a book that uses photos, drawings and other clips, and memorabilia to illustrate the written entries. Vintage-Look Scrapbook Journal Here is what you need: spiral notebook of lined paper old flowery hat old jewelry white craft glue old embroidered hand or dish towel scissors pretty trims, ribbons, and small artificial flowers Here is what you do: 1. To give your scrapbook journal a vintage look, you will need to look for an inexpensive flowery hat, embroidered hand or dish towel, or old broken jewelry at garage sales, flea markets, and rummage sales.
3. Tie a piece of the ribbon in a bow and glue it onto the lid of the box. Cut strips of construction paper as tall as the box and as long as the paper will allow. You will need enough strips to make at least ten sections in your scrapbook when the strips are attached and folded back and forth like a fan. 34 old gift wrap 4. 5. Use the cellophane tape to attach the strips of paper together to make one long strip. Fold one end of the paper strip so that it exactly fits in the bottom of the box. 6.
Continue weaving ribbon across the page until the page is full of ribbon strips. 6. Trim the edges of the ribbon so that they are even with the ends of the page. Glue the ends of the ribbons in place to secure them. 7. Slip the corners of cards and photos between the woven ribbon and the page to hold them in the scrapbook. Net-Covered Page 1. To make a different kind of tuck-in page, stretch the net bag over a page of the scrapbook. 2. 3. 4. Staple the net in place around the page. Trim off the excess netting.
