

Jessie assigns roles and explains the proceedings, sets the time and place for the trial, and prepares her argument as the plaintiff's attorney. Davies' latest work resolves the issue after Jessie, who has just read a book on the American justice system, serves Scott Spencer with papers charging him with stealing the money and demanding that he appear for trial by their classmates. I enjoyed that book but was frustrated that the issue of the missing money was never addressed. The two siblings and their friends squared off in a winner-take-all lemonade war in Davies' first book about the Treskis, The Lemonade War. Jessie and her older brother Evan came to terms with gifted Jessie skipping third grade and joining Evan in the school's only fourth grade class, but it took a war to accomplish it. The five books in this fun-to-read series But what happens when neither solution is what they expected? Can these siblings solve the mystery on their own or will they need to work together after all? And will the lemonade money ever be found? Humorous and emotionally engaging, this entertaining novel is full of ideas for creative problem solving, definitions of legal terms, and even analytical thinking. Her solution? Turn the playground into a full-blown courtroom with a judge, jury, witnesses. Evan Treski thinks fourth grader Scott Spencer is their prime suspect, so he challenges him to a game of basketball. Follow this brother-sister duo as they take justice into their own hands and explore the meaning of fairness, integrity, and repairing relationships on the playground and in business in this installment of the award-winning Lemonade War series.

lemonade? Evan and Jessie are hot on the trail of the missing lemonade-stand money.
