A history professor has discovered something valuable amid the dust at Somerville’s tiny museum. It’s a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his boyhood friend. Some townspeople want to sell it, and soon they start squabbling about what to do with the money. Somerville’s young sleuths decide to get involved before the letter can be sold or stolen. AGES: 9-12 AUTHOR: Raised in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, Michele Jakubowski has the teachers in her life to thank for her love of reading and writing. While writing has always been a passion for Michele, she believes it is the books she has read throughout the years, and the teachers who assigned them, that have made her the storyteller she is today.
ILLUSTRATOR: Amerigo Pinelli lives in the heart of Naples, Italy, among narrow streets and old churches. A long time ago, when he was a child, he met a pencil, and from that moment on he started to play, joke, fight, and make peace with it. Spending his life doing the thing he enjoys the most is a great gift. Three ladies make his life full of joy and color-Giulia, Chiara, and the last arrival, Teresa!