THE+LONDON+EYE+MYSTERY

=**The London Eye Mystery**= =**by Siobhan Dowd**=

There is a great big ferris wheel in the middle of London, called //**The London Eye**.// You can ride in it. The seats are in glass cases called pods. About 20 something people fit in a pod. When you are up high, you can see all of London. It is a big sight-seeing attraction for visitors to London. That is why Kat and Ted don't think anything is out of the ordinary when their cousin, Salim, who is visiting them on his way to move to New York with his mother, says he wants to take a ride on it. While they are waiting in line to buy tickets, a man comes up to them and offers them one free ticket. Not only is it free, but they won't have to wait on the long line. Ted and Kat have been on the //**Eye**// before, so they give the ticket to Salim and tell him they'll meet him when he comes down. But he doesn't come down. They followed the pod he was in. They knew exactly what time it would be coming down. When all the same people who went in it get out, Salim is missing. They wait and check out the other pods. No Salim. Where could he be? Who goes up in a ferris wheel and doesn't come down? What could have happened to him? So the mystery begins....... Ted, who has Aspberger's Syndrome, has 9 theories about what could have happened to their cousin. Together, Kat and Ted test out the theories, eliminating the ones that seem not likely to have happened. Will one of these theories be correct? Will they ever find Salim? The mystery is a good one. Pay attention to little clues and maybe you will solve it yourself before you get to the end of the story!