Wright & Wong Mystery Series Going Out of Print!

We have bad news! The Wright & Wong mystery series is going out of print. The authors, Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz, are also the authors of the Roswell High books, and have therefore turned most of their attention and talents toward writing those books and the Roswell TV show scripts. (Read an interview with them about the show here.) We wish we could beg them not to abandon the Wright & Wong series!

For those that haven't heard of this 4-book series before, it features two best friends in middle school, Orville Wright and Agatha Wong, who keep finding themselves in the middle of mysteries that need to be solved. They make the perfect team: Orville, who has Asperger Syndrome (AS), has an amazing eye for detail, but sometimes sees so many details he can't put the clues together into a whole picture. Meanwhile, Agatha comes from a very large and colorful family, so she is highly trained in the arts of understanding interpersonal relationships and seeing the overall story. Together, they always break the case!

The other excellent thing about this series is the way Orville's AS is discussed. The books always mention the new things he is learning in his social skills class after school, usually one main new skill per book, and Agatha helps to make sure he practices those skills in real-life situations. The strengths he gains from his AS are emphasized many times throughout the case, as well. However, the books do deal with some of the realities of bullying in middle school, which brings out the protective side of Agatha and the analytical side of Orville.

But now the publisher is phasing these books out of print! We have ordered all the remaining copies of Books 1 and 2 from our supplier, but Books 3 and 4 are no longer available for us to order. Therefore, we encourage everyone to order these books while you still can! We have run out of Book 3 as of this morning, so we no longer have the full set, but these books are so good, you'll want the ones you can still get your hands on! (Each book can be read individually, independent of the series order.) You can read synopses of the three remaining cases at our website:

The Case of the Prank That Stank (Wright & Wong #1)
The Case of the Nana-Napper (Wright & Wong #2)
The Case of the Slippery Soap Star (Wright & Wong #4)