WANTED: Characters to STAR in a NEW Children’s Mystery
ANY CLASS, ANY SCHOOL, USA—Sometime soon, a school class from somewhere in the United States will be selected to STAR in an all-new Carole Marsh Mystery! A teacher and students will be featured in The Creepy Crawly Classroom Mystery.
This book will be the first in the “You’re the Star! Mystery Series,” according to Allison Fortune, Marketing Coordinator. “As far as we know there has never been such an opportunity before! We anticipate thousands of entries from classes who believe that they and their teacher are truly worthy of playing the role of characters in a major work of children’s fiction.”
Author Carole Marsh came up with the idea for a mystery starring a teacher and a classroom of kids after doing school visits. “The kids were so jazzed about this concept, that I often ended my school visit program with an impromptu mystery by selecting a teacher, the librarian, the principal, and a few students to come and stand up front with me. Before I knew it, mysterious things would be revealed such as the principal used to be a spy (well, that’s what the kids said!), to real-life cemeteries on school property, or even a mysterious attic in the school, said to be haunted. Also, kids would finish the story I started and send me copies, and they were fascinating. So, this idea was born!”
The contest is easy: teachers and students submit an essay and a photo telling and showing why they’d make great characters in a mystery. But what about writing a mystery starring possibly one adult and thirty kids? “Hmm,” admits the author, “it’s a mystery to me how I’ll pull that off, but I’m sure it can be done and it will be fun and exciting!”
The Creepy Crawly Classroom Mystery will be published and distributed all across the United States in the spring of 2008 with the winner being named by the end of 2007. The winning class will also receive an author visit by Carole Marsh and a FREE set of mysteries for their class.
