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Belly Up
Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
Nominee:Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award -Grades 6-8 (2015)
Nominee:Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award -Children's (2014)
Twelve-year-old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. He believes that Henry, the hippopotamus at the brand-new FunJungle, has been murdered. The zoo's top brass claim the hippo went belly up the natural way, but Teddy and his feisty friend Summer McCraken have other ideas. Could the culprit be FunJungle's animal-hating head of operations? Or is it FunJungle's owner--Summer's dad--a man who is much more concerned about money than animal welfare? The deeper Teddy and Summer dig, the more danger they're in--because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can't be caged!
Book Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Publish Date: Jul 5th, 2011
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: Reprint - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.10in - 0.90in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9781416987321
- Recommended age: 08-12
- Categories: • Mysteries & Detective Stories• Animals - Zoos• Social Themes - New Experience
About the Author
Gibbs, Stuart: - Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Thorne series, FunJungle series, Moon Base Alpha series, Once Upon a Tim series, and Spy School series. He has written screenplays, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows, been a newspaper columnist, and researched capybaras. Stuart lives with his family in Los Angeles. You can learn more about what he's up to at StuartGibbs.com.
Praise for this book
"Great fun....In his authorial debut, screenwriter Gibbs combines details of the inner workings of zoos with some over-the-top action for an entertaining read."-- "Kirkus Reviews"