A Middle Grade Mystery About Truth, Friendship, and a Mind That Notices Everything...
Wren Marlowe notices everything.
The number of tiles on the classroom ceiling. The squeak in Mrs. Carmichael's left shoe. The way Felix Booker taps his pencil exactly four times before writing anything down. There's only one problem: none of it is ever the thing she's supposed to be looking at.
So when a light starts flickering in the window of the old Harlan Water Mill, a light nobody else even notices, everyone tells her to let it go. It's probably nothing. It's probably her imagination running away with her again.
But Wren knows the difference between nothing and something. And this is definitely something.
With her steady best friend June at her side, Wren follows the clues across the creek to a mill that's supposed to be empty, a fence that's been quietly cut, and a secret that someone her own age has been keeping in the dark. What she finds will ask her to do the hardest thing of all: tell the truth, even when it costs her something.
Wren Marlowe and the Mill Light Mysteryis a warm, funny, and quietly insightful middle-grade mystery for the kids who can't stop noticing, the ones who get called distracted when they're actually just paying attention to everything at once.
It's a story about a girl whose brain works differently, and about what happens when the very thing she's always been told to ignore turns out to be her greatest strength.
For readers ages 8–12 Themes: friendship, honesty, curiosity, ADHD as strength.
Published by Marlowe & Co, Iris Pemberton writes warm, honest stories for children about family, friendship and belonging.
