A Wright & Wong MYSTERY 〜The Case of the Prank that Stank〜

A Wright & Wong MYSTERY 〜The Case of the Prank that Stank〜
/by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz / 40,000 words / YL 5 / ★★★★★

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Orville Wright and Agatha Wong are seventh-grade at John Q. Adams Middle School.
They have been best friends since second grade.

Orville is a genius.
He has a condition called Asperger's syndrome
—that while on the outside he wore a don't-knock-no-one's-home face,
on the inside he had a Pentium 100 chip for a brain.

Agatha has a greater number of words than Orville has.
She has a sense of justice.
Orville always count on her.

Agatha wants to be popular with Orville. (He doesn't care at all.)
Jack, who is every seventh-grade girl's crush, is talking to Agatha!
A big football game will be held on Saturday.
He has a kickin' idea for our "prank".
He needs Orville's help for it because Orville is a genius, particularly in the sciences and math.

Orville makes a fantastic prank.
At the during halftime, their prank goes right!
Then goes wrong!
A fire that immediately followed their prank— a prank that involved shooting flames.
The field house and the playing field burned down.
Everyone think Agatha and Orville made the fire.
If nothing is done,
Agatha and Orville would be social outcasts... forever.
Can they prove to everyone that they are not responsible for this fire?
Can they find out who really did it?
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I admire Agatha's character.
She has guts, and sensitivity.
She was in trouble. It was a huge trouble.
Everyone was getting mad at her, maybe even teachers.
Agatha's crunch, Jack, too.
But that didn't get her down.

I was very shy when at junior high.
If I were in Agatha's situation, I guess I can't say anything
even in my side I know that it is wrong for everyone to blame me without any proof.

She believed strongly her best friend.
He was always in her side. And so she.
They are a good team.

I felt a bit sorrow for that Orville's line.
—Sometimes it seemed like Agatha could read his mind. Orville knew he could always count on her.
For the million time, he wished he knew when it was right to smile.
If only he could show her how happy he was to be her friend.—
Orville...You are ok. I hug you...

Anyway, I'm looking for their next case.