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Nobody Poisoned the Candy

By Sikho

Eleven-year-old Frankie Villanueva-Nygaard is the editor-in-chief of the Larkspur Lane Gazette, a newspaper with a circulation of twenty-three. At the Fall Fest, her little brother Iggy, a six-year-old knight, comes back with a bleeding lip. Frankie asks one question — "Like a needle?" — and Iggy says "yeah." That night she prints an Extra: NEEDLE FOUND IN FALL FEST CANDY. By Wednesday the story has reached the evening news, a kind old man has had a visit from the police, a bus driver is being whispered about, and nobody on the lane is sure about Halloween. Frankie is the only person who knows exactly where it started. So she does the hardest thing a reporter can do: she goes back and checks. With help from her best friend Dash, a retired newspaper copy chief with a blue pencil and a basement full of famous mistakes, a librarian in bow ties, and a six-year-old who keeps a museum under his bed, Frankie traces the rumor back to its source — and discovers that the truth is funnier, stranger, and much harder to get people to believe. Funny, warm and fair-play (the clues are on the page before Frankie spots them), this Halloween mystery shows kids how rumors grow, how to check a claim in minutes, and how to write a correction that actually works. A closing note for kids and the grown-ups reading over their shoulders explains the real research behind the story and the real Halloween safety tips. For ages 9–12.

353 minutes estimated reading

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