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Illustrated by
John Ward.
In a lively narrative, Charlie and her two best friends have a variety of adventures in their neighborhood. Charlie solves the mystery of a local family's disappearance (they moved during the night because the moving van was only available then), and she and her brother make a life-sized mule piñata to cheer up a hospitalized neighbor. These cheerful episodic stories are illustrated with black-and-white drawings.