The Case of the Missing Paints

About This Book

Mr. Chu has chosen Aaliyah to sketch the first big heart on the school's kindness mural — the shape everything else will wrap around. But the day before mural day her brush pens are gone: no glitter-blue, no sunset-orange, no leaf-green extra-fine tip. She digs through her tote, checks under the table, and feels the room turn too bright and too loud. Then she pictures Diego, the quiet new kid who stood near her table with his notebook, and the whisper slips out before she can catch it. It travels the room like a paper airplane. That evening, tipping her tote onto the rug at home, Aaliyah finds out what she has really done.