Mr. Bott's Book of the Week!

This book deals with my favorite protagonists, Ingrid....she's cool- plays soccer, smart, and just snagged the role of Alice in the production of Alice In Wonderland. Now, she usually gets a ride from her mom to soccer practice, but her life is about to change when she decides to walk home...and gets lost...

Thirteen-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill decides to be independent and walk to soccer practice.  After getting lost on the way, she meets a woman people call Cracked-Up Katie and calls a taxi from Katie’s house.  Ingrid is horrified to hear Katie’s murder announced on the news the next day.  She is afraid to tell anyone she was at Katie’s house, and then realizes she left her soccer shoes in Katie’s living room.  Thinking she might be fingered as a suspect, she secretly heads off to retrieve her shoes in the middle of the night.  The plot thickens when she sees another intruder in the house while she is there.  She knows the wrong men have been arrested for the crime—but is afraid to talk, even when the police chief questions her directly about those red soccer shoes.  In the meantime, the chief’s cute son starts calling her, she gets the lead role in the community play, and her relationship with her older brother Ty has its ups and downs.  She continues a positive relationship with her Grampy, a lively character in the family.  Ingrid independently investigates, trying to figure out whodunnit.