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The Truth-O-Matic Taco Truck: A Hilarious Tale of Tacos, Truth, and Total Chaos
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
DO NOT MAKE THE GREEN SALSA.
Eleven-year-old Sam Patterson is pretty sure he has enough problems already. He keeps a notebook for everything, his older brother Deke has a new life plan every other week, and now their Uncle Lou has mysteriously disappeared-and left them a taco truck.
The truck, Lucky, seems like a dream.
Until Deke ignores the one rule Uncle Lou left behind.
The green salsa has a very strange effect:
It makes people tell the truth.
Suddenly, a Little League umpire is confessing his secret grudges. An HOA meeting turns into the most chaotic neighborhood meeting Maple Hollow has ever seen. Even the school bully ends up crying over a dog commercial-and discovering he's not the only one with feelings.
And those are just the accidents.
Because Sam, Deke, Ruby, and their surprisingly reformed bully-friend Bobby soon discover that the salsa isn't just revealing silly secrets. It may be connected to Uncle Lou's disappearance-and a twenty-year-old secret involving Maple Hollow's beloved police officer.
With Founder's Day approaching, the kids have only one mission: Find Lou. Figure out the truth. And keep anyone from eating the wrong salsa.
Because sometimes the biggest mysteries aren't solved by detectives. Sometimes they're solved by kids, a suspicious recipe book, a spreadsheet, a notebook full of incident reports......and one extremely dangerous taco truck.
THE TRUTH-O-MATIC TACO TRUCK is a hilarious, fast-paced middle-grade mystery packed with tacos, secrets, friendship, family chaos, unexpected feelings, and a mystery that keeps getting bigger with every bite.
Perfect for readers ages 6-12 who love funny adventures, kid detectives, quirky characters, and mysteries with plenty of laughs.
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