Belly Up

By Stuart Gibbs

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416987320
• ISBN13: 9781416987321
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Not his best one

Exciting story but as an adult I couldn’t figure out if the main character was supposed to be good/likable. There wasn’t anything in the book that revealed anything about him besides him making bad decisions at the start of the book. Strangely kept talking about how one of the adult characters was sooo fat. I tried to like it so we’d have a new author to love (some of his other books were great).