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  “Aliens, Jigsaw!” he exclaimed. “Little green men from Mars—from the stars—from outer space!”

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  James Preller is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed novels The Fall, Bystander, and Six Innings, and the Scary Tales and Jigsaw Jones series. He travels throughout the country visiting classrooms and book festivals. He lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife and their children.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Chapter 1      The Discovery

  Chapter 2      A Riddle

  Chapter 3      Joey Pignattano, World Champion

  Chapter 4      Jigsaw Jones, Private Eye

  Chapter 5      “Like” and “As” and the Pittsburgh Pirates

  Chapter 6      Solved!

  Chapter 7      Eureka!

  Chapter 8      Like an Aardvark

  Chapter 9      Trouble

  Chapter 10    Unriddling the Riddle

  Chapter 11    The Big Y

  Chapter 12    The Treasure

  Chapter 13    Dad’s Decoder Ring

  Chapter 14    Pizza Party

  Excerpt: The Case from Outer Space

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  Copyright

  Copyright © 2002 by James Preller

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Preller, James, author.

  Title: Jigsaw Jones: the case of the buried treasure / by James Preller.

  Other titles: Case of the buried treasure

  Description: First Feiwel and Friends edition. | New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2017. | Series: Jigsaw Jones Mysteries | Summary: Second-grade detectives Jigsaw, Mila, and their friends follow clues found in a school desk that lead to buried treasure. Identifiers: LCCN 2017002906 (print) | LCCN 2017030755 (ebook) | ISBN 9781250110855 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781250110862 (paperback)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Mystery and detective stories. | Schools—Fiction. | Buried treasure—Fiction. | Time capsules—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.P915 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.P915 Jkc 2017 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002906

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  First Feiwel and Friends edition, 2017

  eBook edition, November 2017

  Originally published by Scholastic in 2002

  eISBN 978-1-250-11085-5