Fireworks at the FBI

by Ron Roy

  Grinning, the president took the leash. He gave Natasha a scratch on the head, for which he received a doggy lick on his hand.

  The president gave KC and Marshall a searching look. “I wonder how she knew I wanted a dog,” he said.

  KC smiled at her stepfather. “Maybe there’s a spy in the White House,” she said.

  Did you know?

  Do you know what the letters FBI stand for? FBI is short for Federal Bureau of Investigation. But when President Teddy Roosevelt started the agency in 1908, it was called the Bureau of Investigation. In 1933, the name was changed to the Division of Investigation. Finally, in 1935, it became the FBI.

  J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He was the FBI’s director under eight different presidents. Now, however, FBI directors may serve no longer than ten years.

  Did you know that the FBI also uses dogs to help capture criminals? These dogs are trained to find bombs, drugs, stolen money, and people. Dogs are a big help because they have forty-four times the sniffing power of humans. Some dogs can pick up a scent up to half a mile away!

  In 1950, the FBI began a new program—the Ten Most Wanted list. It named the ten criminals that the FBI most wanted to find. The FBI offers rewards for information leading to the capture of any of its ten most wanted.

  Would you like to be an FBI agent? First you have to graduate from college. Then you have to get special training at the FBI Academy in Virginia. FBI agents take classes in science, in law, and in how to conduct investigations.

  About the Author

  Ron Roy has been writing books for children since 1974. He is the author of dozens of books, including the bestselling A to Z Mysteries and Capital Mysteries. He lives where he was born, in a quiet part of Connecticut. When not working on a new book, Ron likes to teach his dog tricks, play poker with friends, travel, and read thrilling mystery books. You can visit Ron on his Web site at www.ronroy.com.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Text copyright © 2006 by Ron Roy. Illustrations copyright © 2006

  by Timothy Bush. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Roy, Ron.

  Fireworks at the FBI / by Ron Roy; illustrated by Timothy Bush. —

  1st ed.

  p. cm. — (Capital mysteries; #6)

  “A Stepping Stone Book.”

  SUMMARY: As they leave a Fourth of July celebration with the President of the United States, KC and Marshall see unauthorized fireworks at the FBI Building and decide to unmask the culprit and his plans for blackmail.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-49546-4

  [1. Extortion—Fiction. 2. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation—

  Fiction. 3. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 4. Mystery and detective stories.]

  I. Bush, Timothy, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Roy, Ron, Capital mysteries; #6.

  PZ7.R8139Fir 2006 [E]—dc22 2005036068

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