Everything Investigator Girl -

She turned. Her eyes, the color of strong tea, narrowed. "That is a folk myth, Leo. Dryers do not possess mandibles or digestive tracts. I've checked the manual. The true rate of single-sock disappearance is statistically anomalous. Therefore, a variable is unaccounted for."

"Footnotes don't get danger pay," she said. everything investigator girl

She was, as her father had long since resigned himself to calling her, an everything investigator . Not a detective, not a spy, but an investigator of everything . Lost library books? Elara. The mysterious thumping in the basement? Elara (it was the furnace, but she had a theory about a hibernating raccoon). The precise trajectory of a spitball across the cafeteria? Elara, with a protractor and a small, fiercely loyal following of three other fourth-graders. She turned

Leo looked at the invisible trail. "That's where I walked with the cookies." Dryers do not possess mandibles or digestive tracts

"Stop," Elara said, not looking at him. "The sock. Where did you hide it?"