On the second day of summer drama camp, Biani Madrigal is plunged into a real-life drama when her teacher, Miss Jazz, goes missing. Biani and her new friends Michael and Cole become known as The Diamond Minds Detectives as they follow clues the authorities ignore: Lost charms. A break in. A vandalized car. Fingerprints. Watch out! Evil is chasing the charm chasers.
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The plot for this first book sprang from one of the nine mini-musicals I co-wrote and directed for Show Biz Kidz, an afterschool theater I developed and ran for seventeen years. The characters in these books, written for eight to twelve-year-olds, were inspired by my students whose innocence, autonomy, and intelligence I admire.
Love of literature, theater, and children are the source of Jessica's joy. While she and her husband, Chris, raised four boys, Jessica wrote plays and taught children's theater for her sons and hundreds of other young dramatists. Inspired by the intelligence and teamwork of her clever students, Jessica wrote, Stage Fright: the Charm Chase, but unlike Miss Jazz—Jessica never went missing.
