The Table Cape Crusader

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Rocko Jarvis is on top of the world.

The Secret Detectives Club has landed its second case: The Case of the Missing Milk Jugs! It might not sound thrilling, but Rocko loves being in the club with his best friend Cosmo and Mingus Reidthe coolest kid in town. For a while, he can even forget about the school bullies and the way his brain sometimes feels a bit... different. This mystery should be easier than solving a haunted hall. Right Then a mysterious note arrives. Someone has a new case for Rockoone so big it could affect the whole town. Suddenly, strange and silly accidents start happening. One by one, people in Table Cape are being targeted, and no one knows whos behind itor whos next. As the clues pile up, Rocko starts to worry: what if its his mum, with her big art show coming up Or his sisters band, The Capers, right before their big festival gig Or worse... what if hes the next target And just when things couldnt get weirder, strange symbols begin to appear on the towns walls. Are they connected to the pranks Or something even more mysterious Rocko, Cosmo, and Mingus must crack the case before the next prank goes too far. And through it all Bruces milk jugs are still going missing!

Keep one eye open, Detective Boys. The next act of this Table Cape Crusader will happen before you know it. Who will be next

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Kate Gordon grew up in a very bookish house, with two librarian parents, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. In 2009 she won a Varuna fellowship and hasnt stopped writing since. Her first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue, was published by Allen and Unwin in 2010. She has since been published multiple times by everyone from Yellow Brick Books through to Random House Australia. Kate won the 2016 IBBY Ena Noel Award for Writing Clementine, and in 2018 was shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript. Her YA novel Girl Running, Boy Falling (2018) is a CBCA Notable. In 2021, Asters Good, Right Things (published by Riveted Press) won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and in 2023, Xavier in the Meantime was shortlisted in the same category.