Jesse Steam Mysteries: The Secret in the Jelly Bean Jar
Table of Contents Cast of Characters Meet Jesse Mr Stubbs The Gang 4 Town Map Find Your Way Around Deanville 6 Chapter 1 The Ginormous Yucky Messy Sticky Terrible Spilled Grape Juice Morning 8 Chapter 2 Leaf Me Alone and Other Gross Miserable Chores 14 Chapter 3 An Exploding Bicycle Tire the Great Jelly Bean Challenge and a Long Walk Home 20 Chapter 4 Jelly Bean Dreams Bicycle Nightmares and a Lot of Wild Guesses 28 Chapter 5 My Brain Hurts and So Does My Right Big Toe 36 Chapter 6 Time for a Little Espionage or Where’d I Leave My Fake Nose and Glasses 46 Chapter 7 See Ya Later Calculator 54 Jesse’s Word List 62 Makerspace Activity Try It Out 64
Cast of Characters Jesse Steam Amateur sleuth and all-around neat kid Jesse loves riding her bike solving mysteries and most of all Mr Stubbs Jesse is never without her messenger bag and the cool stuff it holds Mr Stubbs A cat with an attitude he’s the coolest tabby cat in Deanville Stubbs was a stray cat who strayed right into Jesse’s heart Can you fi gure out how he got his name Professor Peach A retired university professor Professor Peach knows tons of cool stuff and is somewhat of a legend in Deanville He has college degrees in Science Technology Engineering Art and Math Emmett Professor Peach’s ever-present pet white lab rat He loves cheese balls and wherever you fi nd The Professor you’re sure to fi nd Emmett even though he might be diffi cult to spot Clark Lewis Jesse’s next-door neighbor and sometimes formidable adversary Clark Johnson and his slippery slimy gross-looking pet frog Lewis Yuck 4
Dorky Dougy Clark Johnson’s three-year-old tag-along baby brother Dougy is never without his stuff ed alligator a rubber knife and something really goofy to say like eleventy-seven Kimmy Kat Black Holder of the Deanville Elementary School Long Jump Record know-it-all and self-proclaimed future member of Mensa Kimmy Kat Black lives near the Spooky Tree Liam LePoole A black belt in karate and also the captain of the Deanville Community Swimming Pool Cannonball Team Liam's best friend is Chompy Dog his stinky gassy and frenzied brown Puggle Mr Flemdrek Owner of Flemdrek’s Toy Store on Daniel Drive see map Flemdrek’s has everything a kid could ever want except for computer games Strictly analog here kids Flemdrek says Old Man Snord Proprietor of Snord’s Gas Station next to the park Known far and wide for having soda pop so cold it’ll crack yer dang teeth Oh and free air for bicycle tires 5
