The canary caper

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Title:

The canary caper

Alternate title:

A to Z mysteries. Book C

Author:

Roy, Ron, 1940- author.

Gurney, John Steven, 1962- illustrator.

Series:

A to Z mysteries ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.

Audience:

"Grades 2-4"--cover p. [].

General Note:

"A Stepping Stone book."

Physical Description:

86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Pets -- Juvenile fiction.

Lost articles -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Gurney, John Steven, 1962-

Publisher:

Random House,

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Publisher description

Publication Date:

1998

ISBN:

9780679985938

9780679885931

Publication Information:

New York : Random House, c1998.

Call Number:

J ROY A TO Z

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003293183	Juvenile Fiction	ROY A TO Z	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

C is for Canary...Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get an urgent call from Mrs. Davis. Her canary is missing! The little bird has vanished without a trace, and he's not the only one. Two other pets are missing. The kids suspect a pet-napper, and now that Ruth Rose's cat, Tiger, has turned up missing too, it's become personal!

Author Notes

Ron Roy was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 29, 1940. After high school, he joined the Navy for two years. He received a Bachelor's degree in literature from the University of Connecticut and a Masters degree in teaching from the University of Hartford. He was an elementary school teacher for numerous years.

His first children's book, A Thousand Pails of Water, was published in 1978. Soon afterwards, he stopped teaching and became a full-time writer, but he still visits schools around the country. He is the author of the A to Z Mysteries series, the Capital Mysteries series, and the Calendar Mysteries series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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