A twelve-year-old sleuth probes a hippo’s suspicious death at a wild zoo-amusement park in a funny, twisty middle-grade mystery.
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A twelve-year-old sleuth probes a hippo’s suspicious death at a wild zoo-amusement park in a funny, twisty middle-grade mystery.
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Twelve-year-old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy 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 i...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Hippo death drives the plot; kids face peril; non-graphic injuries and danger
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Occasional mild-to-strong swearing (ass, damn, piss); heavy bathroom humor
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Light themes of animal welfare versus profit and personal ethics
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Animal abuse and neglect themes; hippo death treated as possible foul play
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