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What I Liked: Stuart Gibbs explores the plight of animals in this latest addition to the Funjungle series by focusing the plot on human/animal conflict that results from habitat loss. Teddy would like very much not to be involved in any more mysteries after too many near-death experiences in past cases. However, the doctor’s activist daughter comes to Teddy for help when a local extremist radio host says a mountain lion killed his beloved dog. He is running a pressure campaign to get the mountain lion killed and has put a bounty on its head high enough that hunters are not afraid to break laws to try to collect.
Teddy and Summer have their first couple’s fight when she enthusiastically is ready to chase down leads and put herself in danger. Teddy faces extreme peer pressure over not wanting to run into danger. He wants to be cautious yet can’t fathom staying behind while Summer runs into dangerous situations. This makes for a great discussion point to have with your children/students about what they should do to resolve this situation.
The race is on to save one Mountain Lion’s life and to prove it innocent. Once again, poop gives Teddy the clue he needs to crack the case.
While this case doesn’t strictly revolve around Funjungle animals there are plenty of humorous catastrophe scenes culminating in a huge publicity event that goes hilariously wrong. This is a great family series that has my children begging to keep reading and even sneaking the book to their bed to keep going to figure out the real culprit.