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As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.

Franklin borrows a book from the library on how to make super-duper kites and accidentally loses it; and now he is afraid to go back to the library unless he can find it.

"All rabbits love books, except for Henry--he prefers games and adventures.

A boy's favorite book is missing, and he describes it to the reader in great detail, including all the changes he made to it (like hedgehogs covering the pictures of the scary monsters) until you realize his missing book in in your hands.

"Kayla needs to return her library books so that she can check out new ones.

"With the untimely death of third-generation bookseller Emon Koumoto, a small Tohoku town loses its last bookstore.