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Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident sleuth when the zoo's newest addition goes missing—before she even arrives!—in the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series.
FunJungle is frenzied, awaiting the arrival of its most thrilling animal yet—Li Ping—a rare and very expensive giant panda that the zoo went to enormous lengths to secure. But when the truck transporting Li Ping shows up, its precious cargo has vanished into thin air. The FBI steps in to investigate, and Teddy is happy to leave the job in their (supposedly) capable hands. After all, FunJungle has never encountered a crime this serious.
But when someone threatens to blackmail Teddy's girlfriend, Summer, if he doesn't solve the crime, his involvement in this mystery is no longer black and white.
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Release date
April 4, 2017 -
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Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9781481445696
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781481445696
- File size: 3958 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781481445696
- File size: 5277 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.5
- Lexile® Measure: 780
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Reviews
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January 15, 2017
In this fourth roller coaster of an endangered-species mystery, Teddy is still living at the giant zoo/amusement park called FunJungle, and he's still smack dab in the epicenter of the brouhaha. Middle schooler Teddy, his girlfriend, Summer, and hundreds of panda fanatics anticipate the arrival of a rare panda from China named Li Ping. However, when the guarded truck reaches FunJungle, Li Ping is gone, replaced by a ransom note. Having learned from past mistakes and at the behest of the FBI, Teddy tries to avoid getting involved. No such luck, because his bungling park-security nemesis, Marge, blackmails him into investigating the official investigation. When a villain dressed as a panda throws Teddy into the freezing-cold water of the polar-bear exhibit, Teddy and Marge forge a new dimension to their relationship. They begin to work together, making some headway into narrowing down the suspects (which include the mythical chupacabra) of this monkey-wrenching whodunit. Gibbs never scrimps on creating belly-laughing hullabaloo for his white protagonists. Interweaving animal facts (pandas can produce 50 pounds of poop per day) into his plot, the author seamlessly inspires compassion and urgency on behalf of species endangered due to lack of habitat and exotic animal trafficking. Never slumping into the formulaic doldrums, the FunJungle series keeps on chugging. (author's note) (Mystery. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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January 1, 2018
In the follow-up to Big Game, FunJungle Wild Animal Park is abuzz about a new panda--until the truck arrives minus the animal and its escort. As usual, Teddy ends up in the thick of the investigation. Well-researched and cinematically paced, this mystery-romp is only more enjoyable for the improbability that a thirteen-year-old is repeatedly smarter than the adults involved.(Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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