“Cool!” Isabelle said. “Be at the carnival at one o’clock sharp. Shirley Vega will show you where to go.”
Then Isabelle gave a little wave and went back into her house.
The girls stared at the door. Then they jumped up and down.
“Isabelle Santoro rocks!” Brenda cried.
“What happened to your article, Brenda?” George teased. “Aren’t you going to deliver it to Isabelle?”
Nancy watched as Brenda tore her paper in half. “From now on, this will be my secret,” she said.
“Good,” Nancy said. “But don’t forget. You still have to write about something nice at the carnival.”
“I will,” Brenda said. “How about this? ‘Four third-graders become world-famous singing sensations!’”
Nancy, Bess, and George watched Brenda walk away. They turned to one another and gave high-fives.
Nancy felt on top of the world. Not only had she solved another case—she and her friends were going to be onstage with Isabelle Santoro!
• • •
The next day Shirley whisked Nancy, Bess, George, and Brenda to a stage set up on the soccer field. Nancy wore her flowered pants and a yellow T-shirt. Bess was dressed in a pink polka-dotted sundress. Even George wore new blue pants and a crisp white T-shirt.
Brenda wore white pants and a gold shirt that read SUPERSTAR.
While Isabelle sang her song, the girls pretended to tell secrets.
“Everyone’s here!” Bess whispered into Nancy’s ear.
“I know!” Nancy whispered back.
Nancy glanced down from the stage. In the audience she saw her friends Rebecca, Katie, Molly, and Amara. Even Orson was there, waving Frogzilla and wearing a brand-new blue ribbon.
Not present were Jason, David, and Mike. After they confessed to Shirley they weren’t allowed to return to the carnival.
“Isa-belle! Isa-belle! Isa-belle!” everyone shouted after the song.
When Isabelle climbed down from the stage Bess and George ran for her autograph. But Nancy had some of her own writing to do in her detective notebook.
Daddy was right again. There are always surprises at carnivals. And you never know what you’ll find!
One thing I did find out—it doesn’t pay to get even. In the end, nobody wins.
But maybe if I practice hard enough, next year I’ll win the potato sack race. And maybe a brand-new panda!
Case closed.
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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