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    Vanished!
    Vanished!
    Vanished!
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    Vanished!

    By James Ponti

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    An Edgar Award Winner for Juvenile Fiction

    Perfect for mystery buffs with “elements of Alex Rider, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes,” (School Library Journal) the Framed! series stars the only kid on the FBI Director’s speed dial and several international criminals’ most wanted lists!

    Middle school is hard. Solving cases for the FBI is even harder. Doing both at the same time—well that’s just crazy. But that doesn’t stop Florian Bates!

    After helping the FBI solve an art theft at the National Gallery and uncovering a DC spy ring, Florian’s finding life at Alice Deal Middle School a little boring. But that’s all about to change! His FBI handler, Marcus, has a job for him! Is it a bank robbery? Counterfeit ring? International espionage? Actually it’s middle school pranks…

    Sounds pretty ordinary except that the pranks are happening at a prestigious private school attended by the President’s daughter who may—or may not—be involved. So Florian and Margaret are going undercover to see if they can use their TOAST skills to figure out what’s going on before the media gets hold of the story.

    However, once the crime-solving pair arrive at the school, they discover that there’s a lot more than a few pranks going on and the conspiracy of silence reaches all the way to the top. Then a student vanishes in the middle of a concert at the Kennedy Center and things take a sinister turn!

    Can Florian and Margaret save the day? Or are they about to get toasted?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateAug 22, 2017
    ISBN9781481436359
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    James Ponti

    James Ponti is the New York Times bestselling author of four middle grade book series: The Sherlock Society following a group of young detectives; City Spies, about an unlikely squad of five kids from around the world who form an elite MI6 Spy Team; the Edgar Award–winning Framed! series, about a pair of tweens who solve mysteries in Washington, DC; and the Dead City trilogy, about a secret society that polices the undead living beneath Manhattan. His books have appeared on more than fifteen different state award lists, and he is the founder of a writers group known as the Renegades of Middle Grade. James is also an Emmy–nominated television writer and producer who has worked for many networks including Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, PBS, History, and Spike TV, as well as NBC Sports. He lives with his family in Orlando, Florida. Find out more at JamesPonti.com.

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    • 5/5
      Hands down best book I’ve ever read. I love how their isn’t only one plot the entire and how there are many different problems but they all piece together in the end. My new favorite book.
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      A GRAT BOOK BY A GREAT AUTHOR WITH BOTH MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
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      Florian and Margaret have been asked by the FBI to go undercover in a prestigious prep school to find out who is performing pranks on students and staff. The reason that pranks warrant the attention of the FBI is that the President's daughter, Lucy, is a student at the school and she has been affected. Once they are there, Florian and Margaret find lots of clues that lead to several suspects, including Lucy, but it isn't long before it becomes clear that pranks are just the tip of the iceberg of the problems in this school.

      Vanished! is the second in the Framed! or TOAST mystery series. As in Framed!, the clues are engaging and fun, keeping the interest level high. The characters are well developed and their motives are easy to understand. Although, not quite as fast paced as Framed!, Vanished! is still a quick read filled with action and adventure. Overall, Vanished! is a good addition to the series.

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