Book: "The Guide Dog Mystery"

  • Title: The Guide Dog Mystery
  • Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • Main Characters: Henry 14 , Jessie 12 , Violet 10, Benny 6
  • Story takes place at a guide dog school
  • Jason works with Ginger to do one more exam with Ginger the dog before becoming a guide dog
  • The children are invited to spend a week at the guide dog school to help out
  • Mrs Carter, the owner of the dog school, 
  • Children take phone calls and organize files
  • A man tells the children he wants to buy Ginger for his shows
  • Annie is 17 year old and is a blind girl who is looking for a guide dog
  • Children watch Annie training with Ginger
  • Children see a light flickering at night in the guide dog school
  • Jason can't find his key to the kennel
  • Benny finds notes in Jason's trash can that say "meet me at 11 o'clok tonight at Joe's restaurant...it's important"
  • Charlotte Davis is the former owner of Ginger who sent the note to Jason
  • Charlotte Davis never showed up to the restaurant to meet Jason
  • Children think that Charlotte Davis must have got the kennel key from Jason's room when Jason was at the restaurant waiting for her
  • Someone was following them when they went shopping with the guide dog
  • Annie can hear other footsteps following her and smells special shaving scent
  • Picnic in the park with the man watching them from the bushes
  • Ginger sleeps in Annie's room because scared that dog will be taken
  • Annie says Ginger was not in her room. Somebody whispered "Ginger" and smelled like the shaving scent earlier
  • Old dog collar from before has a hidden diamond necklace
  • Benny recognized the driver of Mrs Carter as being the mysterious man
  • Ginger comes into the room with the man
  • The man says he wanted the diamond necklace he stole from Mrs Davis
  • Police came and arrested the thief whose name is Glenn