The Lost & Found Club and Missing Bat: · Book1

Somebody took Rae Bennett's bat. By lunchtime, four hundred people had an opinion about who. The bat went into her bag at practice on Thursday. By Friday the empty sleeve is a photo in every group chat in school, there's a poll going round with four options and a hundred votes, and not one of the options is the truth. Nia Calder isn't a detective. She's a girl with a notebook and a table under a broken window. But Coach asks her to find it before Friday's game, and Nia says yes before she has a team - and before she understands what she's promised: no name goes in that chat. Not a hint. Not a guess. Not even once we're sure. Jun can pull a timestamp off a photograph. Bee knows everybody's business before they do. Between them they've got seven days, one locked equipment cage, a rumour moving faster than any of them can run - and a school that has already decided who did it. Finding the bat is the easy part. The Lost & Found Club is a contemporary school mystery for readers 13 and up: no murders, no secret societies, just three girls, a cafeteria table, and the difference between finding a missing thing and finding somebody to blame.