The Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Thief

by Jan Berenstain and Stan Berenstain

Book Overview

Illus. in black-and-white. Brother and Sister are sure they know who is breaking into lockers at Bear Country School. But when it comes to finding real proof, they're in for a big surprise. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679840338
• ISBN13: 9780679840336
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6

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The Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Theif

When a new teacher comes to Bear Country School to teach a speacial social studies lesson, the cubs like the new teacher. In the first class the cubs laughed at Too-Tall. They just learned about "innocent until proven guilty". Brother had a sneaky feeling that Too-Tall will get back at the cubs for laughing at him. He told the cubs his idea. Lizzy said that his brother, Barry, would get it first since he laughed the most. At lunch, Barry Bruin reported that his Yogi Grizzwell and Grizzly Koufax were stolen from his locker. The next day Sister Bear's officaial Bear Scouts flashlight was stolen. They all suspected that Too-Tall or his gang did it since they were always at the bottom of these stunts. More lockers were robbed the next few days. Mr Honeycomb, the princapal, had even set up hall patrols, but they wren't much help. The vice princapal, Mr. Grizzmeyer, even called the gang to confess. But Too-Tall said they didn't have any evidence. Brother, Sister and Cousin Freddie decided to shadow Too-Tall and his gang. They shadowed him until they found him taking a box into a hallow tree in the woods. When his gang was gone they took the box. Cousin Freddie was so excited that he pulled the box away from Brother. He accidently droped it and garbage fell all over their feet. Then Too-Tall and his gang leaped out of some bushes. They shouted, "Garbage! That's what your evidence is. Garbage!". Brother's thinking place wasn't far from the hollow old tree. The place hadn't failed him yet and he didn't want this to be the first time. Sister thought up of something. Besides Too-Tall and his gangs lockers, Brother's locker is the only one that wasn't robbed. Too-Tall woundn't rob his own locker but he might to throw us off the trail. They thought about how to use Borther's locker to catch the culprit. They figured it out. They'll say that Too-Tall wouldn't rob Brother's locker because he's just plain scared of Brother Bear. They would also say the he's going to bring his Babe Bruin rookie card to trade and keep it in his locker. They would rig up a panit bomb with the help of Squire Grizzly, president of Great Grizzly National Bank. The bank uses panit bomb to catch robbers. That morning, they set up a panit bomb in Brother's locker. The locker wasn't opened by anybody. So they knew they were doing it at night. The other day Too-Tall or his gang wasn't covered in red panit. All the cubs were there in class. They figured out that the new social studies teacher, Mr. Dweebish, was the culprit since he wasn't there. The went he his house and Mr. Dweebish was covered with red panit. He explained it was only an experiment to make Too-Tall respect class more for something he didn't do. He said he was going back to the university and will hand all the stolen goods back to Mr. Honeycomb.