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Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery
by Ann M. Martin
Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail.
MY fear returned.
With shaking hands I lifted the lid of the box.
All I could see was tissue paper.
"Claudia? Do you have any tweezers?" I asked. "I'm not touching this."
"Oh, for heaven's sake." Claudia took the box from me and pulled the tissue paper up. she crumpled it into a ball, which she dropped on the bed.
"Ew!" shrieked Dawn, jumping away from the paper, and the rest of us screamed, too.
When we calmed down, we dared - all six of us - to peer into the box.
"What is it?" asked Mallory.
"It looks like a necklace," I replied.
Lying in the box was a tiny glass ball on a delicate gold chain. The ball was hollow, and inside was what looked like a seed - a small, blah, yellowish-brown thing.
I lifted the necklace out, afraid that at any moment it might go up in a puff osmoke, or that we might go up in a puff of smoke.
"Hey, here's a note!" I exclaimed.
"Oh, brother. which one of us is going to read it?" asked Dawn.
"I - I guess I better," I said. "I mean, Kristy's right. The box was mostly addressed to me."
I dropped the necklace on the bed (everyone scrambled away from it), and opened up the note.
"Handwriting?" asked Kristy.
I shook my head. "Nope. More cutout letters from the newspaper."
"So what does it say?" asked Claudia.
"It - it says," I replied shakily, "well, see for yourselves."
I spread open the note on Claudia's bed. The members of the Baby-sitters Club leaned over to look at it, although I noticed that nobody got too close.
The note said: HALLOWEEN IS COMING. BEWARE OF EVIL FORCES. WEAR THIS BAD-LUCK CHARM, MARY ANNE - OR ELSE.
Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery
Published by Scholastic Inc. 1996
ISBN: 0590436597
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