Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs

Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs

12 year old Theodore Teddy Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. Even though it's claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain't the polar bear's lunch. Dealing with the zoo's top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time. They want to see any trace of Henry's death disappear like yesterday's paper. So Teddy sets out to find the truth. With the help of Summer McCraken, a fiesty girl with secrets of her own, the two narrow down their prime suspects. Is it Martin Del Gato, FunJungle's head of operations who hates kids and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and Summer's father, who has more concern for the dough he's raking in than the animals in the zoo? As their investigation goes on, Teddy gets squeezed on all sides to quit asking questions or Henry won't be the only animal in the zoo to turn up dead. The deeper Teddy and Summer get, they had better make sure they want to know what they want to know because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can't be kept in a cage

Stuart Gibbs is the author of the New York Times bestselling Spy School and Moon Base Alpha books, as well as the FunJungle series. He has written screenplays for features such as See Spot Run and Repli-Kate, as well as working on a number of animated films and developing television projects for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC, and Fox. Stuart resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Stuart Gibbs' website is www.stuartgibbs.com.

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ISBN 13	9781416987314
ISBN 10	1416987312
Title	Belly Up
Author	Stuart Gibbs
Series	Funjungle
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Other book format
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Year published	2010-05-18
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 3-6) 2013, Winner of Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Grades 3-5) 2015, Commended for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2012, Commended for Cybils (Middle Grade Fiction) 2010, Short-listed for North Carolina Children's Book Award (Junior Book) 2013, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Children's) 2012, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2012
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