The Tuttle Twins and the Case of the Broken Window

Our family read this together over a week, and the way it weaves economic ideas like opportunity cost into a fast-paced mystery kept even my reluctant reader engaged. The scene where the twins face off against the bulldozers had us all debating what we'd do in their shoes. It's rare to find teen fic

I was hooked from the first chapter when the twins face a scheming salesman—it sparked a great discussion with my teenager about economics. The way the story weaves in real-world lessons about unintended consequences is surprisingly engaging for a teen novel.

My kids actually begged me to keep reading after dinner, which never happens. The way it weaves in economics through that bulldozer scene was clever without feeling like a lecture.