# Belly Up **Author:** Stuart Gibbs **Grade range:** Grades 3–5 **First published:** 2011 **Page count:** 320 **ISBN-13:** `9781416987321` **ISBN-10:** `1416987320` **Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/belly-up **License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing. ## About this book 12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. Even though it's claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain't the polar bear's lunch. Dealing with the zoo's top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time. They want to see any trace of Henry's death disappear like yesterday's paper. So Teddy sets out to find the truth. With the help of Summer McCraken, a fiesty girl with secrets of her own, the two narrow down their prime suspects. 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 McCr ## Where this book is assigned ### Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award - **recommended** · 3rd grade · Minnesota — [source: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award winners (Minnesota Youth Reading Awards / MYRA), via Goodreads award record — 2015](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/39542-maud-hart-lovelace-award) - **recommended** · 4th grade · Minnesota — [source: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award winners (Minnesota Youth Reading Awards / MYRA), via Goodreads award record — 2015](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/39542-maud-hart-lovelace-award) - **recommended** · 5th grade · Minnesota — [source: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award winners (Minnesota Youth Reading Awards / MYRA), via Goodreads award record — 2015](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/39542-maud-hart-lovelace-award) --- _Generated from primary-source citations indexed on ReadingList.school. For the full HTML view with reading-list cross-references, see https://readinglist.school/book/belly-up._