

Agent: Sally Apokedak, Apokedak Literary.

Well-placed red herrings and clues will have readers guessing until the truth comes out. Delightfully quirky townsfolk and details of small-town life create the perfect backdrop for this deftly plotted mystery by Souders ( How to Ruin Your Summer). When his grand-father becomes a person of interest, Coop, an avid mystery reader who has just come into his father’s old Hardy Boys books, becomes determined to find out whoĬommitted the crime, even if that person is Gramps. Suspects begin to emerge, from the town funeral director, who bakes muffins that reek of formaldehyde, to a family that has long hated Coop’s. Everyone assumed she had abandoned the family-a terse note from the fashionable woman said she had to get away from small-town life-but it now seems that she was murdered.

Construction at the local playground unearths a skeleton that is soon revealed to be that of Coop’s grandmother, who left when Coop’s dad was young. And while some of the clues are subtle and well placed, others are so obvious that it’s not clear how Coop manages to miss them.After his dad died five years ago, 13-year-old Coop and his mother moved to Windy Bottom, Ga., to live with the boy’s paternal grandfather. Much of the earlier chapters are devoted to introducing Windy Bottom’s abundant quirky residents and offering plentiful details of the town’s quaintness, which may lose some readers’ attention. p2 ITB Coop Knows the Scoop, what is the name of the author Taryn Souder ITB Coop Knows the Scoop, what is the name of his mothers coffee shop where Coop works A Latte Books. The mystery itself is intriguing, but it doesn’t take off until almost halfway through the book. ITB Coop Knows the Scoop, why do strangers think Coop and Justice are twins They both have red hair, they have freckles, and they are thirteen. Coop winds up suspended from school and grounded by his widowed mom, but, as the title suggests, he indeed “knows the scoop” by the end of the story. Convinced of Gramps’ innocence, Coop and his twin pals, Liberty and Justice, set out to solve the mystery and clear his name. Coop’s excitement is soon replaced by worry when his beloved Gramps is implicated in a long-unsolved crime. In the book Coop Knows the Scoop, what do the Feather sisters do for different days of the week Use a different color feather in their hats for each day of the week.

Gr 4-6–Summer is winding down in Windy Bottom, GA, and Cooper “Coop” Goodman and his friends can barely contain their curiosity when construction at the town playground uncovers a human skeleton buried under the rusty slide. In the book Coop Knows the Scoop, who are the retired teachers who liked to gossip Ruth and Meriwether Feather.
