The Mystery of Room 0: A Decodable Chapter Book for Older Readers, Ages 8-12: 1

Tess Vale keeps a rule for everything. Rule Forty-Seven is the one about the drawer.The lost-property drawer at Greyford Depot is not a hiding place. Things do not stay in it. They arrive - and the brass key that turns up one wet Tuesday has no teeth, no lock it fits, and a tag for a room that does not exist.Room 0 is not on any plan. The hotel across the lane has been shut for years. And the town crew are sealing the shaft on Friday.Tess is eleven, she is good at facts, and she is slow at long words. Both of those things are about to matter.Written to be read. Every word in this book was checked against a declared phonics scope - 78% of it is one syllable, the longest sentence is nineteen words, and no page asks a reader to guess. The mystery plays fair: every clue is on the page before the answer is.For readers aged 8 to 12 who want a real story without walls of text.