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red-haired officer told Cam and Eric. “The blue box was in the backseat of his car.”
    “Thanks to both of you,” Sadie Rosen said, “we have all the snack money.”
    Sadie Rosen smiled.
    “Aren’t you going to give these children a reward?” the red-haired officer asked.
    “A reward?” Ms. Rosen said.
    She thought for a moment.
    “Yes. Tomorrow everyone in bunks B8and G8 will get ice-cream sundaes.”

    When they left the office, Cam told Eric about the extra snack money her mother had given her.
    Eric said, “My dad gave me extra money, too. He thought the police might not catch the thief. But I told him, of course they will. They have my friend Cam helping them.”

Cam Jansen
It’s a
RAID
!

C HAPTER O NE
    Cam had made lots of new friends at camp. She played number games with Terri and told her about the many mysteries she and Eric had solved.
    Cam and Gina traded books.
    Betsy’s family liked to travel. She told Cam about the faraway places she had visited.
    One afternoon, during the second week of camp, Cam and the girls of G8 were getting out of the lake when Fran came to take them back to their bunk. Kitty, the camp’s pet cat, was following her.
    “I’m sorry I’m late,” Fran told the swimcounselor. “Jacob and I were in the middle of a great game of tennis. I won.”
    Fran walked to the edge of the lake. She put both hands in the water. “Nice and warm,” she said. “So how did my G8 ducks enjoy their swim lessons?”
    “They did very well,” the swim counselor told her.
    Kitty looked up at Betsy.
    Meow
!
    Fran called out to the girls, “We’re going back to the bunk to get changed. Baseball is next.”
    Cam and the other girls in G8 wrapped themselves in their towels. They walked quickly ahead, up the small hill near the lake to their bunk. Fran and Kitty followed them.
    “Hey, Cam,” Terri called as they walked. “Do you know how many times this summer we’ll take this walk from the lake?”
    Cam shook her head. She didn’t know.
    “Oh, that’s easy,” Terri said. “We go to the lake every day for swimming and threetimes a week for canoeing. Over three weeks, that’s thirty times.”

    They were walking across the small, grassy field near their bunk.
    “Hurry and change into shorts, T-shirts, and sneakers,” Fran told them. “And remember to get your baseball gloves.”
    Cam was the first one to step into the bunk.
    Cam quickly looked around the room,then she shouted, “Hey, what happened?”
    Beds had been pushed into the middle of the bunk. Sneakers and pants were piled on the beds. Shirts were hanging from the rafters. Hello G8! Guess Who ! was written in chalk on the ceiling.
    The other G8 girls hurried into the bunk.
    “Who did this?” Terri asked.
    “I didn’t,” Betsy said. “I was at the lake.”
    Just then Fran and Kitty entered the bunk.
    “It’s a raid!” Fran shouted. “It’s a raid!”
    Fran clapped her hands and sang,
    “
Don’t be afraid
.
    It’s just a raid
.
    We’ll get even
.
    Even-Steven
.
    Raid! Raid! Raid!”
    The G8 girls laughed and clapped along.
    “But who should we get even-Steven with?” Terri asked. “Who did this?”
    “I think it was G9,” Betsy said. “They are always racing us to the dining room andsaying they’re better than us. Or maybe B8. We play them in baseball.”
    “Whoever did this didn’t steal my money,” Terri said. “I had eight dimes, three nickels, and twelve pennies in the cup by my bed and it’s all still here.”
    Gina found her bed and started to push it back to its spot.
    “We’ll clean up later,” Fran told her. “Right now we have to get ready for baseball. While you’re playing, I’ll be thinking.” She pointed to her head and grinned. “Thinking of ways to get even.”
    Cam and the other girls searched on the beds for their sneakers. There was a large lump beneath the blanket of one of the beds. Terri lifted the blanket and found their baseball gloves.
    Fran stood by the door to the