My Stupid Journal by Daisy Tannenbaum

I’m Daisy. Maybe you know me from “DAISY & THE PIRATES.” I’m supposed to be in Sixth Grade now, but I punched some jerk at school and got expelled, so my parents sent me to be home-schooled by my Aunt Mill, a math teacher who cracks codes as a hobby and happens to live in Paris, which everybody thinks is so great.

I’m a normal kid mostly, so don’t expect me to fly or wave a wand or any of that phony junk. Aunt Mill got me mixed up in the search for Maria Antoinette’s diamonds, worth like ten-zillion dollars, and that’s what this stupid story is all about. Along the way I meet shady antiquities appraisers, dotty diamond dealers, loopy Louvre art experts, Algerian fraudsters, rogue CIA agents, and expat Russian ruffians, not to mention future fashionistas and cat-burglars-in-training.