Alec Flint is a 4th grade super-sleuth. When the Christoper Columbus exhibit is stolen from the local museum, Alec's Dad, a police detective is called in to investigate. Alec, picking up on several clues, decides it is a great mystery to test his skills! At school, impressed by a fellow classmate, Gina, an expert at math who can also write in a supersecret code - he decides to partner up to solve his mystery. Gina, not only teaches him the nifty code but proves incredibly useful to his investigation. More than that - it turns out that Gina has a mystery of her own to solve - the Art teacher's gone missing too!

A fun kid's mystery read with excellent attention to detail and good behavior modeling. Alec tells a lie and feels "mushy" inside and owns up to it! They also have very good behavior in the library, not running, putting things away correctly and even exhibit good information literacy skills when selecting their research material!!! Not overly sophisticated, so while you are learning some good stuff, you are still having loads of fun! Lots of great fun facts about Christopher Columbus are also included!