The Bodega is a corner store owned by the Fernandez family. The store has merchandise in both English and Spanish (For example: eggs are huevos and oranges are naranjas). Also, the customers can speak in both English and Spanish while shopping there.
The building also has a kitchen and the parent's bedroom. One of the back rooms of the store was originally the Fernandez siblings' bedroom. It had a dividing curtain in the middle for privacy. At the end of the second season, Alex and Eduardo worked together and built Alex his own bedroom in one of the spare storage rooms. In the third season, Gaby now had the old bedroom all to herself.
The bodega is an important location in almost every episode.
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The store also appears in some of the books from the Ghostwriter book series.
The Big Book of Kids' Puzzles[]
The team manages to catch a thief called the Booksnatcher in one of the bodega's storerooms, but the thief gets away, stealing Alex's atlas in the process.
Off the Top of Your Head: Trivia, Facts and Fun[]
In the section "Codes, Spies, and Private Eyes", Gaby and Alex are helping in the bodega. Gaby convinces her brother to not throw a tomato at her and also shares some trivia, including about detectives.
Doubletalk: Codes, Signs, and Symbols[]
The bodega is mentioned in two sections: Tossed Salad, and Lost in Spice. In the "Tossed Salad" section, Ghostwriter rearranges some of the letters of the signs on the vegetable stand. The reader is to unscramble the letters. In the "Lost in Spice" section, the reader is to put together torn labels for spices for the bodega.
Clinton Street Crime Wave[]
Gaby finds out from her father that someone has been stealing food from the bodega. Mr. Fernandez shares his suspicion that it might be an elderly woman that only buys canned peas. Gaby shares the information with the team, and she and Tina agree to watch for the thief.
During the stake out, she finds the suspect, but loses her after a crowd of people leave the store. However, Mr. Fernandez is sure that he had found the thief- a girl named Jade Clintock, although he discovers after catching her outside that he had nothing from the store in her backpack. It is later revealed that Jade is the thief after all. The team, though, had decided to help her with her homeless situation instead of turning her in for stealing.
The Big Stink and Five Other Mysteries[]
In the section "The Mystery of the Missing Disk", Alex is quite tired of working in the bodega, but is soon caught up in a new case- someone that was recently in the store had been accused of taking a valuable disk. With Ghostwriter's help, he figures out which recent customer the suspect had given the disk to.
Ghostwriter Magazine[]
Vol. 1, No. 4[]
In the mini-mystery "The Case of the Bodega Burglar", Gaby and Alex discover that someone had stolen six hundred and fifty dollars from the bodega, as well as a box of Choco-Crisp candy bars. The rest of the team helps them discover the thief.
Vol. 2, No. 1[]
In the section "Unscramble Gaby's Scrapbook", it is stated in a newspaper clipping from October 13, 1984, that the Fernandez family was celebrating the opening of the store.
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