Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit
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Text copyright © 2013 by Octavia Spencer
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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)