Hello, Friday Fiction Family! My latest middle-grade read, which I highly recommend to all my young (or young-at-heart) readers, is a Southern mystery, Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders. In this entertaining book, we follow the journey of thirteen-year-old Coop Goodman, who turns to sleuthing after the remains of a family member are found buried under the town’s playground.
This story is far more than solving the crime that plagues the small town of Windy Bottom. Coop has to deal with buried emotions as he comes to learn more about his family: his reserved grandfather. The grandmother he never knew. And his father, who was killed a few years earlier in the service of his country.
Add in some great friends and a worthy foe, and you have a first-rate who-dunnit with heart. I loved this book and believe you will too.
The whole town is talking about what’s buried beneath the playground…
Windy Bottom, Georgia, is usually a peaceful place. Coop helps his mom at her café and bookstore, hangs out with his grandpa, bikes around with his friends Justice and Liberty, and is determined to live up to his dad’s legacy. Windy Bottom is full of all kinds of interesting people, but no one has ever caused a problem. Until now.
And somehow, Gramps is taking all the blame! It seems like there are a lot of secrets that were buried in their small town after all…
Will Coop and his friends get to the bottom of the mystery and clear Gramps’s name before it’s too late?
