Pepper's Rules for Secret Sleuthing Format:Hardcover MANipulators

MANipulators

Sycamore is writing about the need to escape control through flight or obliteration

when your family and faith have abandoned you

just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013

and how the enchanting discovery of first love can change the shape of a person's life

Pepper's Rules for Secret Sleuthing Format:Hardcover MANipulatorsNancy Drew meets Harriet the Spy in this action packed and heartfelt debut middle grade following an overzealous amateur sleuth as she investigates a shocking family secret and unravels the mystery of her developing feelings for girls. Rule One: Your loyalty is to the case. Amateur detective Pepper Blouse has always held true to this rule, even if it meant pushing people away. But when the results of Pepper's latest case cost her any hope of the girl