For Ages
8 to 12

Samantha Spinner and the Super-Secret Plans is a part of the Samantha Spinner collection.

An Excerpt fromSamantha Spinner and the Super-Secret Plans

Chapter One

 

 

Unexplained Vanishing Person

 

 

Samantha went searching for Uncle Paul.

 

Nobody had seen him for days.

 

On Friday morning, he’d made strawberry waffles and helped everyone get ready for the day. He reminded Buffy to include her books and pencils in the large handbag she lugged to school. Then he waited for the bus with Samantha and Nipper, and he walked their pug, Dennis, to the park and back. After he dropped Dennis at home, he shuffled across the driveway in his bright orange flip-flops to his one-room apartment above the garage.

 

That was the last anyone had heard or seen of him.

 

When she looked for him on Saturday, Samantha figured he was at the flea market, where he traded snow globes and souvenirs every weekend. But she couldn’t find him then, or on Sunday, either. So on Sunday evening she went up the stairs and peeked through his apartment door. His crates of books, magnets, stickers, and maps were stacked neatly against the wall, but there was no sign of him anywhere.

 

On Monday morning, he didn’t show up…