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Text © 2022 by Amy Merrill-Wyatt

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wyatt, Merrill, author.

Title: Tangled up in nonsense / Merrill Wyatt.

Description: First edition. | New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2022] | Series: The tangled mysteries | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: Sloane and Amelia clash with rival detectives when they travel to Tangle Glen mansion with the goal to find the two million dollars that went missing on the premise decades ago.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022005510 (print) | LCCN 2022005511 (ebook) | ISBN 9781665912327 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781665912341 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Lost and found possessions—Fiction. | Money—Fiction. | Mansions—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | LCGFT: Detective and mystery fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.W975 Tf 2022 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.W975 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022005510

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022005511