The Case of the Missing Family
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Authors: Dori Hillestad Butler,Jeremy Tugeau
The Case of the Missing Family
Dori Hillestad Butler
Pictures by Jeremy Tugeau
Albert Whitman & Company
Chicago, Illinois
For Kathy, Editor Extraordinaire
5. Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help
No Jumping to Conclusions
Hello!
My name is Buddy. I’m a dog, but I’m also a detective.
I used to solve mysteries with my old human, Kayla. Now I solve them by myself.
Here is a list of mysteries I’ve solved:
The Case of the Missing Boy
The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts
Those were easy cases to solve. I’m working on another case that is much harder to solve. I call it the Case of the Missing Family.
I’m a pretty lucky dog. I have both an old family and a new family. The people in my new family are:
Connor
Mom
They are not missing. They’re inside that house over there. It’s nighttime, so they’re asleep. I love my new family, but I can’t help wondering what happened to my old family. My old family is the family that is missing.
The people in my old family are:
Kayla
Dad
Mom
Sometimes when my new family is asleep, I come outside, lie down under the stars, and gaze at my old family’s house. My old family used to live in the house behind this one, but they haven’t been there in a long time. There is a sign in their front yard. It says: For Rent. That means:
My old family isn’t coming back to Four Lakes.
A new family will move into their house.
I know where the mom from my old family is. She’s in a place called the National Guard. She’s been there for eleventy-hundred-thousand days. I don’t know what happened to Kayla and Dad. That is the mystery.