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and Jake are on the case, eventually enlisting the aid of the rest of the family. Just a couple problems, though-threatening notes are turning up in the mailbox, and a mysterious stranger’s nosing around. They pull together when it really counts, though, and soon things are humming and the stage is set for a rousing summer. As with all of Randolph’s plans, the family is initially skeptical. Theater-director dad Randolph decides to raise money by opening a creative-arts summer camp on their property, at which his uber-talented family will teach gifted kids. Thanks to an embezzling financial manager, they’re facing ruin. In this sequel Jake’s back, but it’s the Applewhites who don’t know how or if they’ll make it. In Newbery Honor–winning Surviving the Applewhites (2002), Jake Semple, the big-city “bad kid,” didn’t know how he’d manage a year with that irrepressible clan.
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