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couldn’t get out on his own. “Pull me out, Jessie. I’m stuck,” he said.
    Jessie grabbed Benny’s feet and tugged. He tumbled out of the box holding a bracelet. It was a silver link chain with a charm on it.
    “What’s that charm?” Jesse asked, looking carefully at the bracelet. “Why, it’s a tiny swimmer, isn’t it?” She flipped the charm over. There was an S engraved on the back.
    “I think it might be Sophie’s,” Benny said. He took a closer look. “But she didn’t say anything about losing a bracelet yesterday.”
    Jessie nodded at Benny, then turned and asked a nearby attendant if it was okay to take the bracelet. “We think we know who this belongs to,” Jessie told the woman.
    “Please bring it back if you can’t find the owner,” the woman said.
    Jessie agreed and tucked the bracelet into her pocket.
    “We better get back to the group,” Jessie told Benny. “We have questions to ask Sophie Webb.”

    The two of them hurried back to the Educational Center’s red barn.
    Mr. Newton was already selling cameras.
    “Oh no,” Benny said. “Some kids have new cameras, but I didn’t see them pay.”
    Benny pointed at Griffin, who was snapping pictures around the barn. “Like Griffin. How do I know if he just bought that one or if it’s Blake’s?”
    “Let’s hope that Henry and Violet saw who stood in line,” Jessie said.
    Jessie hurried over to Violet. She was standing with Nico. Jessie almost didn’t recognize him. Nico had his shaggy hair tucked under a baseball cap.
    “Did you see who bought cameras?” Jessie whispered to her sister.
    “No,” Violet admitted. “We were early, but other kids were even earlier! When we showed up, Mr. Newton had already started selling cameras. We saw Griffin and a few others buy cameras. But mostly . . . we missed it.”
    “Hmm,” Jessie said. “I’m not sure how we’re going to solve this mystery now.”
    “It was too easy thinking that we could just watch for who has a camera but didn’t buy one,” Henry said, coming over to the girls. “Mysteries are never that easy.”
    “It might be a little harder to figure out, but we’re very good detectives!” Violet said.
    Jessie noticed that Nico had a camera now. He was busy writing his name on it in pen. “After what happened yesterday with Blake,” he was saying, “I’m not taking any chances. This is my camera.”
    “Did you just buy that?” Jessie asked Nico.
    “Yes,” he said, handing the pen to Sophie.
    Then Jessie saw that Sophie had a camera, too. But just yesterday she said her parents wouldn’t let her get one, Jesse thought.
    “Did you just buy that?” Jessie asked, pointing to Sophie’s camera.
    “It’s mine,” Sophie said, writing her name on the camera.
    Henry pulled Jessie aside. Benny followed them. “Asking everyone if they bought a camera is not going to work,” Henry said. “If someone stole Blake’s camera, he or she might lie about whether or not they bought one.”
    Jessie shrugged. “I was hoping someone would just confess.” She took out her notebook. Flipping it open, she turned to where she had taped the printed suspects list they had typed up the night before. “I suppose we should go ahead and interview the suspects like we planned.”
    “That’s right, Jessie,” Benny said. “We have more questions for Sophie.”
    Jessie agreed and pulled the bracelet out of her pocket. She led Benny back over to Sophie. “Is this yours?” Jessie asked. She held out the little charm bracelet for Sophie to see.
    “Yes! Thank you!” Sophie took the bracelet. “Where’d you find it?”
    “In the lost-and-found,” Benny said.
    “Well, I am so glad. I didn’t know how I was going to explain to my parents that it was missing. They spent a lot to get it for my last birthday.” Sophie clasped the bracelet around her wrist and began to move over to the chair area.
    “Wait, Sophie,” Violet said. “Yesterday I noticed that you stayed far away