I've Got This!

Quentin Margolis never forgets anything. Jacket when it rains. Bandage before the scrape. The one rare trading card that wins the game. He doesn't know how he does it and he doesn't know what he'll need it for. He just knows to grab it.New in the small town of Guild River, Pennsylvania, Quent is hunting for friends. He finds three: Jeffrey, the smartest kid in school; Henway, who eats snacks like it's a competitive sport and turns every setback into a tragedy; and Thom, the police chief's son, who can dunk on you and never cracks a smile at school.Together they stumble onto the town's biggest legend. Fifty years ago, four crooks robbed the Thunderville bank. Within a day three of them were dead, the fourth was in handcuffs on a Guild River sidewalk, and the money had vanished. Every kid, cop, and treasure hunter in the county has looked for it since. Nobody has found a dime.Their social studies teacher makes the boys a deal: they can do the Thunderville case for their project, but only if they turn up something the FBI missed. So they dig. Old microfiche. A town historian with a memory full of rumors. A retired newspaper man who plays lousy chess. A mysterious fifth member of the gang nobody ever caught.Then the reel they need goes missing from the library. Strangers start watching them from across the park. The school's biggest bully has Quent at the top of his list. And somebody else wants that money a whole lot more than a good grade.Quent has always had what he needs. This time, his friends' lives may depend on it.A funny, fast-moving mystery for readers 9 to 12 about new towns, real friendship, standing up to bullies, and one kid whose strangest talent might be the ability to find exactly the right people.