These near misses in killing him involve the witty descriptions that we love about Gibbs’s writing. As the plot thickens, he must dodge murder attempts on his own life and false arrest accusations to uncover the reason for Henry’s murder. He enlists the owner’s daughter, Summer, and his parents for help. Teddy decides it is up to him to uncover the mystery. However, he is shocked to learn the Doctor thinks Henry has been murdered and that the top people at Funjungle are covering it up to keep bad publicity under wraps. Teddy’s character is well presented and his actions feel like what a normal 12-year-old would do in this situation. The theme park zoo is interesting but he gets a bit bored as the only staff kid and is always curious so when the mascot of the park, Henry the hippo, ends up suddenly belly up he can’t help but sneak into the autopsy as entertainment. In the book, we meet our main character, 12-year-old Teddy Fitzroy, who lives in the employee trailer park at the newly opened Funjungle amusement park where his parents work. What I Liked: My family has become big fans of Stuart Gibbs and after catching up on the Spy School, Charlie Thorne, and Once Upon a Tim series we have branched into his older series by reading Belly Up, the first book in the Funjungle series. The deeper Teddy and Summer get, they had better make sure they want to know what they want to know because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can't be kept in a cage! Is it Martin Del Gato, FunJungle's head of operations who hates kids and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and Summer's father, who has more concern for the dough he's raking in than the animals in the zoo? As their investigation goes on, Teddy gets squeezed on all sides to quit asking questions or Henry won't be the only animal in the zoo to turn up dead. With the help of Summer McCraken, a fiesty girl with secrets of her own, the two narrow down their prime suspects. They want to see any trace of Henry's death disappear like yesterday's paper. Dealing with the zoo's top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time.
Even though it's claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain't the polar bear's lunch.
Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. 12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail.
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