The Murder Mystery of Mattie McDuffie

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They found the body and were not about to just be kids.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fears of nuclear bombs and the excitement of a passionate young president ready to change the world and an activist fighting for their civil rights become background noise when twelve-year-old Marina and Jesika discover the body of Mattie McDuffie. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ignoring the adults' bidding to just be kids these two young girls decide to grow up quickly and enlist a few friends to help only to realize they will have to take a few leaps of faith and logic to solve the murder mystery and be strong in a world where they are judged by the color of their skin.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bollenbacher Street just got more interesting!</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is the first book in the Bollenbacher Street Mysteries series in which unexpected plot twists inspire a friendship between science and faith to follow clues uncover motives and solve mysteries while two young women wrestle with the challenges of growing up in the 1960s and developing a sense of identity and purpose in a country and world that is struggling to do the same.</span></p>