Giant Stolen Cheesecake by Patricia Bernard

Twelve-year-old Strobe Bevan-Evans only wanted new blades and a trick to impress her snobby classmates. She never expected to chase a one-metre cheesecake--and a pair of art thieves--at ninety kilometres an hour.

When Aunt Olwyn's spectacular engagement banquet ends in disaster, the social pages blame Olwyn for the vanished dessert … and four priceless paintings. To clear her aunt's name, Strobe teams up with pizza-delivery blader Winston Wong, camera-mad Alex Wong, and accounting prodigy Tran Nuen.

From half-pipes and city traffic to a frantic airport showdown, the kids flip, grind and custard-chucker their way through a mystery packed with laughs, friendship and guts.

Can one fearless skater and three loyal friends turn the city upside-down before the real thieves escape--cheesecake crumbs and all?

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Aunt Olwyn Moncrieff lives for flawless parties, so her niece Strobe is thrilled when Olwyn agrees to swap a stuffy tennis tournament for an arena of roller-blade ramps. But the night's fireworks fizzle when their showpiece--a giant cheesecake big enough to seat a toddler--rolls out of the kitchen and straight into the headlines.

With Olwyn branded a thief, Strobe refuses to stand by. Winston's taped-up boots, Alex's rainbow-streaked hair, Tran's oversized suit and Strobe's fierce blue eyes become the city's most unlikely detective squad. From marble bank steps to midnight buses, each clue leads them closer to a white van, a snakeskin brief-case and a secret plan that could ruin more lives than Olwyn's.

Rollicking, heartfelt and deliciously funny, Giant Stolen Cheesecake proves that real courage sometimes arrives on eight tiny wheels.