Cincinnati Lee, Curse Breaker

Heidi Heilig

(Greenwillow Books) Cincinnati’s great-great-great grandfather is 135 years old because he once drank water from the fountain of youth. When 12-year-old Cincinnati visits him at his nursing home, he can’t talk, so she steals his diary to learn more about his past adventures. She discovers that years ago he removed a clay artifact from a mummy’s tomb in Peru. She thinks this may be why their family is cursed. The artifact will be displayed in a New York City museum where her mom works in the fundraising department. Cincinnati asks her friend Felix, whose dad also works at the museum, to create a forgery (look-alike version) of the artifact so she can return the original. Cincinnati switches out the pieces and carefully places the original in her bag. But while…

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