Summarizer
 
 
Your job is to provide a brief summary of the events that occurred during this section. You should highlight any major developments in the plot, any new characters that are introduced, and the main flow of action of this section. You will share your summary with your individual group and with the entire class.

At this point in the story Cam begins to wonder about the Dime Toss and what is happening. She knows that there is something fishy, and is on the trail to figuring out what is going on. Cam has just figured out that the same two people keep winning. They were wearing disguises and kept coming back to play and won every time. She discovers that there is a magnet taped under the cardboard and that the dimes are really aluminum covered metal slugs, which are magnetic. This is why the guy and girl kept winning the Dime Toss. Cam and Eric report this to Ms. Benson, and they go to try and catch the two kids.
When they find the boy and girl, they discover that the two are selling the prizes they won (by cheating) on the street corner, and making money for themselves. Ms. Benson has a talk with the two - Sylvia and Bert. Sylvia and Bert are punished by having to work in the school library. The prizes are returned and Cam and Eric are rewarded for figuring out the mystery.

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