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This author appeared at the 2009 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Rene Saldana Jr.
When Toots Rodríguez approaches Mickey Rangel on the playground, he knows something is up. Toots, the prettiest girl in the fifth grade, never talks to Mickey, not even when they're assigned to work together on a class project. But Toots has come to Mickey because she's in trouble, and he's a detective. The real deal. He has a badge and a certificate after completing an online course two years ago. "You have to believe me, Mickey. I didn't take that pen. I didn't." When Toots shines her big green eyes on him and insists repeatedly that she's innocent, Mickey's intuition tells him to run fast – in the opposite direction. But he’s a sucker for a pretty girl, so he takes on the case of the missing pen. The Case of the Pen Gone Missing/ El caso de la pluma perdida is the first book in the Mickey Rangel Mystery series. This bilingual story has humor, suspense, and intrigue for intermediate readers. Saldaña is also the author of The Whole Sky Full of Stars, The Jumping Tree, and Finding Our Way: Stories. He lives in Lubbock, where he teaches in the College of Education at Texas Tech University.
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