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The crazy case of missing Thunder / by Tony Abbott ; illustrated by Colleen Madden. --
Long-time friends and fellow sleuths Jeff Bunter, Brian Rooney, Mara Lubin, and Kelly Smitts, collectively known as the Goofballs, investigate the disappearance of Thunder the pony in their town of Badger Point.
Record details
- ISBN: 1606843400 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781606843406 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 101 p. : ill. --
- Publisher: New York : Egmont USA, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | "Ages 7-9"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 5.99 |
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| Subject: | Private investigators > Juvenile fiction. Ponies > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Long-time friends and fellow sleuths Jeff Bunter, Brian Rooney, Mara Lubin, and Kelly Smitts, collectively known as the Goofballs, investigate the disappearance of Thunder the pony in their town of Badger Point. - Baker & Taylor
Hired by a wealthy boy to find a missing pony, junior detectives Jeff, Mara, Kelly and Brian use an unconventional combination of outrageous disguises, crazy inventions and goofy crime-solving techniques to solve a pun-laden mystery. Simultaneous. - Random House, Inc.
Fans of Dav Pilkey's The Adventures of Ook and Glook and Patricia Reilly Giff's ZigZag Kids will flock to this chapter-book mystery series full of slapstick humor and silly situations by the wildly popular Tony Abbott, author of the Secrets of Droon series.
Jeff, Brian, Mara, and Kelly are self-proclaimed goofballs. Since first grade these friends have been solving mystery among their schoolmates etc and now their reputation is expanding.
Rich kid Randall Crandall's horse, Thunder, goes missing and he calls upon the Goofballs to find him. Deciphering the clues that range from a flower delivery truck, a thunderstorm and a horse who's afraid of thunder, leads the Goofballs to recover missing Thunder, the flower-loving horse. In the meantime, they follow a trail of chomped-up flowers, disguise themselves as bushes in a florist shop and spend some time in a house that's bigger than the White House.
