Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2015 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
About This Book
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!
Series Placement
Book 1
Book 1
Awards
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2015 · Grades 3-5 · Winner
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2015 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award
2013 · Children's · Nominee
North Carolina Children's Book Award
2013 · Junior Book · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2013 · Grades 3-6 · Winner
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2012 · Children's · Nominee
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2012 · Children's · Nominee
Texas Lone Star Reading List
2012 · Young Adult · Commended
Cybils
2010 · Middle Grade Fiction · Finalist
