Thursday, May 21, 2020

#tbt: Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs

Image: Simon & Schuster
Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs. FunJungle #1. 304 p. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, May, 2010. 9781416987314. (Own)

#tbt features Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs.The other day, I learned on FB that Stuart Gibbs was celebrating the tenth anniversary of the publication of his DEBUT novel, Belly Up! I wasn't aware that Belly Up was Gibbs' debut nor was I aware that in the ten years since, he has published twenty books! Now, I should've been because TMS library owns all of them and they are mostly all checked out for most of the school year. Think about this though. Two books a year for ten years! If you think that your mind is blown, wait. HE HAS FOUR MORE coming out over the next year and a half! Talk about productive! Wow. 

Belly Up is the first book in the FunJungle series. TMS' copy is in tatters from all the checkouts. Teddy Fitzroy lives his best life at an amusement park called FunJungle. When the park's mascot turns up dead, all signs point to murder, but the head honcho insists the hippo died of natural causes. The police investigation is inept, so Teddy is on the case. Hilarity ensues. 


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