The Small Detective 
The Key Beneath The Steps

Some keys open doors. This one opens a family.

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On moving day, eight-year-old Josie Rook discovers a large brass key hidden beneath a loose porch step of her family's old country house. Nobody left it there by accident. Somebody left it on purpose. And Grandpa Walter, quiet and unhurried as always, knows exactly why. Together with her new friends Benji and Sophia, and her puppy Crumb Bum, who found the key first and is very pleased about this, Josie follows the mystery to a locked crate in the attic. What she finds inside will change everything she knows about her family, her house, and what it really means to come home.

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Because someone named Emma loved this house so much, she spent her whole life leaving gifts for whoever came next.  One of them was for Josie.