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Belly Up

Belly Up

by Stuart Gibbs

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appears in For 10 Year Olds, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.

Twelveyearold Theodore ?Teddy? Roosevelt Fitzroy has murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. He believes that Henry, the hippopotamus at the brandnew 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 FunJungl...

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appears in For 10 Year Olds, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.

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Reading this moves like a chain of small, eerie vignettes: lively openings set up a boy raised in a graveyard and then the narrative alternates between short adventures and quieter, reflective passages. Its useful part is a strong, child-centered mood and highly readable chapters that suit aloud reading and younger audiences. The main limitation is an episodic structure that can feel fragmentary if you prefer sustained plotting or continuous suspense.

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