Mandie's reading book is missing! Her good friend Joe carries her books back and forth to school for her, but he doesn't have it. She doesn't dare tell her parents her book is lost. Books cost a lot of money. And Mr. Tallant, her teacher, orders them by mail weeks in advance--there's no bookshop in Charley Gap. The search is on for Mandie's missing book. . . . Where will it turn up?

From the Trade Paperback edition.