An IPPI Mystery Story.
![Mercury's Missing Mutt](https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/11351/190480/583d8c8e9b71e/Mercurys-Missing-Mutt.jpg)
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM needs you.” Chloe Minn and Miranda Knox looked up from
their lunch boxes. A dark-haired boy stood at the end of the table, holding out a business card:
I.P.P.I.: Inter-Planetary Private Investigator Jonathon Jones
We solve every crime under the sun!
“I don’t get it,” Chloe said. “Each planet has its own police force. Why would anyone hire you?”
“Hire us,” Jonathon said, dusting a chair with a napkin and sitting down. “Because startroopers don’t like to get the dust of other planets on their hands. It’s outside their territory. That’s where we come in.”
“We?” Miranda asked. She looked excitedly from Jonathon to Chloe, her curly hair sproinging from side to side.
“Oo! I wanna join!” Tommy Lutsinger said, leaning over his spaghetti.
Jonathon eyed him. “Miranda’s the school computer whiz, and nobody beats Chloe at math. How can you help?”
Tommy shifted, then sat upright. “I have the coolest dog in the universe, Comet!”
Jonathon scratched his chin. “Consider this your tryout, Lutsinger. We might need that pooch of yours.” He tapped some notes in his personal organizer. “Our first case is a missing mongrel on Mercury. One of its germy drool-hounds went missing from a dog kennel.”
Miranda knotted her fingers together. “A lost dog? Oh, poor whittle fuzzy wuppie!”
After school, Miranda used the supercomputer to teleport the crew, plus Comet, to Mercury’s Dog Star Kennel.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November/December 2016 من Spider Magazine for Kids.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November/December 2016 من Spider Magazine for Kids.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
![Chopsticks](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/724062/61320e5b464bd/crp_Chopsticks.jpg)
Chopsticks
Shay can never hold her chopsticks properly. When she uses them, they crisscross and make an X, and sometimes she cannot quite pick up the slippery pieces of tofu. Her mother laughs.
![Matthias and the Dragons](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/724062/613213164e5b9/crp_Matthias-and-the-Dragons.jpg)
Matthias and the Dragons
STRIDING QUICKLY ALONG, Matthias glanced uneasily at the black stone cliffs towering beside him. Ahead, a still lake swarmed with dark clouds of midges. Finally, he spied the faraway ocean. Now I know my way back, he thought. I’d better hurry. We’re leaving the inn this afternoon, and Father won’t be too pleased if I’m late.
![Doodlebug & Dandelion - The Jellybean Machine](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd758693bd3/crp_Doodlebug-Dandelion-The-Jellybean-Machine-Dandelion-Short-stories-for-kids.jpg)
Doodlebug & Dandelion - The Jellybean Machine
“Where’s Dandelion?”
THE FUN ZONE : Sundial
TAKE THIS SUNDIAL, or shadow clock, outside on a sunny day. It’s not as exact as a watch, but it’s more fun!
![Letters from Leo](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd778bbcdf2/crp_Letters-from-Leo.jpg)
Letters from Leo
CHILDREN STORIES
![Meltdown at the Doughnut Factory](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd658043156/crp_Meltdown-at-the-Doughnut-Factory.jpg)
Meltdown at the Doughnut Factory
CHILDREN STORIES
![OPHELIA'S LAST WORD - EXTREME JELLYBEAN CUISINE](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd68cd9f127/crp_OPHELIAS-LAST-WORD-EXTREME-JELLYBEAN-CUISINE.jpg)
OPHELIA'S LAST WORD - EXTREME JELLYBEAN CUISINE
IT TAKES A long time to make jellybeans! But whipping up this delicious jellybean bark won’t take you a whole week.
![Telling Time](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd6bccc0fb8/crp_Telling-Time.jpg)
Telling Time
Art by Kelly Canby
![Secret Message Scytales](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd73fbe3cc8/crp_Secret-Message-Scytales.jpg)
Secret Message Scytales
HISTORY COMICS
![ONE WEEK WONDER](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/11351/679422/60dd731141f70/crp_ONE-WEEK-WONDER.jpg)
ONE WEEK WONDER
WOULD YOU WAIT a week to eat a jellybean?