Bollenbacher Street Mysteries

They found the body and were not about to "just be kids." 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. 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. Bollenbacher Street just got more interesting! 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.