num_pages: 176
description: 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 solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
language: English
title: Room One: A Mystery or Two
titlecomplete: Room One: A Mystery or Two
genres: Chapter Books, Mystery, Childrens, Juvenile, Middle Grade, School, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 3345
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Childrens Young Adult, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Juvenile
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers