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The entire school becomes involved in a mystery when the school skeleton disappears.

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I enjoyed these episodes in the A to Z mystery series.  This set of stories seemed to be about playing tricks on the child detectives.  That was a lot of fun to see them work those puzzles out.  I also liked Talking T-Rex".  I would love to see that presentation come to my elementary school!  These were more fun stories in a fun children's series." ( )

This is a realistic fiction short novel (one of the twenty six book series) about three friends, Dink, Josh, and Ruth who seek to solve their school's mystery. One day when Dink gets a paper cut and goes to the nurses office for a bandaid he notices the skeleton the nurse always has in her office missing. From that the principal holds a school assembly and says that whatever class finds/solves the mystery of the missing skeleton will get a free trip to the new local aquarium. As the student's begin to solve the mystery of the missing skeleton they find many clues and begin solving. One day they put all the pieces together and found the skeleton in a closet. However, the skeleton was holding a note saying "April Fools." As it turns out the principal played a fun prank on the whole school and everybody was going to get to go to the local aquarium. ( )