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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2013 by Octavia Spencer
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Book design and diagram drawings by Chloë Foglia
Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Vivienne To
Jacket design by Chloë Foglia
Jacket illustrations copyright © 2013 by Vivienne To
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spencer, Octavia.
The case of the time-capsule bandit / Octavia Spencer ; [illustrations, Vivienne To].
p. cm. — (Randi Rhodes, ninja detective ; [1])
Summary: Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother’s death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
ISBN 978-1-4424-7681-3 (hardcover)
[1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. Community life—Tennessee—Fiction. 3. Single-parent families—Fiction. 4. Moving, Household—Fiction. 5. Time capsules—Fiction. 6. Buried treasure—Fiction. 7. Tennessee—Fiction.] I. To, Vivienne, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.S74817Cas 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012037405
ISBN 978-1-4424-7683-7 (eBook)
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