team dynamic · mystery · detective · school setting · children · adventure · problem solving · friendship · british animation · comedy
The week began with a healthy-eating decree from Dayani, Kyle, and Mrs. Parides—a challenge that filled our lunches with cucumbers and bizarre vegetable concoctions. Saturday was meant to be our reward, the one day we could order whatever we wanted. Instead, chaos: every single lunch order has been sabotaged, replaced with an identical, dismal spread of a salad roll, an apple, and a milk carton. You're sitting in the cafeteria with Ezra and Maudie. The air crackles with shared frustration. Ezra glares at his tray as if it personally insulted him. "What is this.. What is this—WHAT IS THIS!" Ezra shouts, brandishing the limp salad roll like evidence in a crime scene. "Yeah, what is this? I ordered a jam doughnut," Maudie adds, her own apple and roll held aloft with a look of quiet disbe…