The Purple Fingerprint
Chapter 1: Bad News Brenda
"Macaroni and cheese, please!" eight-year-old Nancy Drew called out from the lunch line.
"For all of us!" Bess Marvin said.
George Fayne gave Bess a nudge.
" -- Please!" Bess added quickly.
Bess and George were Nancy's two best friends. They were also cousins who looked very different. George -- whose real name was Georgia -- had brown eyes and dark curly hair. Bess had blue eyes and long blond hair.
But all three friends had a lot in common. They were in Mrs. Reynolds's third-grade class at Carl Sandburg Elementary School. And they couldn't wait for macaroni-and-cheese Monday.
Mrs. Enid Carmichael, the lunch lady, stood behind the counter. She wore her usual pink uniform and a hairnet.
"Sorry, girls," Mrs. Carmichael said. "No macaroni and cheese today."
Nancy couldn't believe her ears. "But it's Monday," she said, surprised.
"And I said 'please,'" Bess said.
Mrs. Carmichael smiled.
"Today we're having something from my brand-new cookbook," she said. "It's a French dish called quiche à Ia fromage."
"Keesh a Ia..." Nancy tried to say.
"I hope ... read full excerpt from Nancy Drew Notebooks #44: The Purple Fingerprint ebook
