“Mom says he’s a bottomless pit.” “He’ll eat when he’s ready,” said Grandma. “I practically forget to eat.” “But Evan’s always hungry,” said Jessie. “Sometimes that happens to me,” Grandma said. “Yom Kippur is the day when the Jewish people ask for forgiveness and they don’t eat.” “Is Evan Jewish now?” asked Grandma.

During their last phone call, she was talking with Jessie about the sequoia trees in California, but she kept using the word sequester instead. “No, that’s Purim.” Grandma was always mixing up things like that, things that sounded kind of the same, but were different. “Did you know that it’s Yom Kippur?” “Yom Kippur, is that the one where the kids dress up?” asked Jessie’s grandmother. “And today he’s not even eating, or anything,” said Jessie. And how Evan and Jessie were left to look for the ball, and how Evan didn’t talk the whole time they did. She told her how Evan had to hunt for the ball for half an hour before finally finding it, and how he told all his friends to just go home, he’d find it himself, just go home.

She explained to her grandmother about the trial yesterday and the basketball game and Scott kicking the ball into the swamp. The five books in this fun-to-read series are:“Everything’s awful,” said Jessie, picking at a corner of her bedroom wallpaper that was peeling. and surprising consequences.īut what happens when neither solution is what they expected?Ĭan these siblings solve the mystery on their own or will they need to work together after all? And will the lemonade money ever be found? Humorous and emotionally engaging, this entertaining novel is full of ideas for creative problem solving, definitions of legal terms, and even analytical thinking. Her solution? Turn the playground into a full-blown courtroom with a judge, jury, witnesses. Follow this brother-sister duo as they take justice into their own hands and explore the meaning of fairness, integrity, and repairing relationships on the playground and in business in this installment of the award-winning Lemonade War series.Įvan Treski thinks fourth grader Scott Spencer is their prime suspect, so he challenges him to a game of basketball. lemonade? Evan and Jessie are hot on the trail of the missing lemonade-stand money.

The lemonade crime