Down the Rabbit Hole : An Echo Falls Mystery

This book is all about Ingrid Levin-Hill and her red soccer Pumas. It all starts at the dentist. Ingrid has just had a check-up and is preparing to go to her next soccer practice at 4:30. She was waiting very impatiently for either of her parents to pick her up. She is impatient because of her strict coach's rules. Rule #1:Miss a practice, miss a game! Rule #2:Miss a game, miss the next game! Rule #3:Being late for practice= push-ups. Ingrid would hate to be late, or worse...MISS PRACTICE!!!! It was 4:18 and Ingrid just couldn't take it any more so she started running as fast as her feet could carry her to the soccer field.

After a while she slowed down to see where she was... but it didn't help because even if she did slow down she still couldn't tell where she was...she was lost. Just then a weird looking lady walked up to her, a lady who was commonly known as Cracked-Up Katie.

Cracked-Up Katie was actually very kind to Ingrid and offers to call her a cab. While they wait Ingrid takes out her red soccer Pumas to put them on... then Cracked-Up Katie asks her what she likes to do. Ingrid answers that she likes soccer and drama. When Ingrid says drama Cracked-Up Katie asks her who she plays for. When Ingrid answers that she plays for the Prescott Players Cracked-Up Katie freezes and turns pale as if she just realized something then she staggers out of the room. Just then the cab pulled up. Not wanting to be late Ingrid jumps in the cab and leaves. Once she gets to the soccer field she notices that no one's there. She sits down and waits just when her mom's car pulls up. She tells Ingrid that soccer was canceled. Oooops!

Later on she looked all over for her soccer cleats but just couldn't find them! Weird... hmmmmm.

Later the next morning she found herself looking at the newspaper and she saw this on the front page: a picture of Cracked-Up Katie, a headline that read: LOCAL RESIDENT FOUND MURDERED, and a subhead that read: ASSAILANT UNKNOWN. Then it hit her, her soccer Pumas were at...Cracked-Up Katie's house!

Read this Grand Canyon Reader Award book to find out what Ingrid will do to solve this mystery and get her shoes back!!!!