Room one
Subtitle: a mystery or two
By: Andrew Clements ; illustrations by Chris Blair.
Contributors: Blair, Chris, 1968- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780689866869
Subjects: Schools -- Juvenile fiction; City and town life -- Juvenile fiction; Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction; Nebraska -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. 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.
Notes: Ages 8-12.

A Junior Library Guild selection.