Belly Up - Book 1 - Stuart Gibbs
Category: Children
Tags: Children, Adventure, Mystery
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 its claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure aint the polar bears lunch. Dealing with the zoos top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time. They want to see any trace of Henrys death disappear like yesterdays 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, FunJungles head of operations who dislikes kids and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and Summers father, who has more concern for the dough hes raking in than the animals in the zoo? As their investigation goes on, Teddy gets squeezed on all sides to quit asking questionsor Henry wont be the only one to turn up dead. The deeper Teddy
