- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Candlewick (Aug 11 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0763619280
- ISBN-13: 978-0763619282
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 14.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 268 g
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Product Description
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6-Aaron Betts, the star of Trouble at Betts Pets (Candlewick, 2002), is back and people still remind him of animals. Here, he finds a sickly turtle with a map painted on its shell and takes it in. When a man who looks like a giraffe shows up at Betts Pets looking for a turtle, the boy keeps quiet. Then a homing pigeon drops a threatening note asking that the reptile be returned and Aaron and his friend Sharon soon find themselves in danger. However, that's not all Aaron worries about. The pet store business continues to decline, his best friend's family is moving their restaurant out of the neighborhood, and his friend Bertha is not doing well now that she's in a nursing home. The sheer load of quirky characters and subplots overshadows the mystery, and the crooks turn out to be more inept and humorous than dangerous. Still, this fast-paced novel will appeal to kids who like funny stories tempered with sensitivity like Johanna Hurwitz's "Aldo" titles (Morrow) or Carol Gorman's "Dork" books (HarperCollins).-Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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What do the Birdman of Alcatraz, a bizarrely painted turtle, and three bumbling criminals have in common? Find out in a funny, suspenseful new chapter of the Betts Pets mystery series.
There’s never a dull moment at Betts Pets, the neighborhood pet shop introduced in TROUBLE AT BETTS PETS. Now, in CANARIES AND CRIMINALS, the eminently likable Aaron Betts and pals Sharon Trout and Tony Wong - not to mention Loafer the Chauffer (now a poet) - are all back, along with a menagerie of offbeat new characters. When Aaron’s school project leads to an encounter with an ex-convict, and a turtle with an intricate map on its shell turns up at the shop, Aaron and Sharon are drawn into an all-new mystery and even manage to foil an ill-fated heist. Along the way, Aaron learns a few things about his family, his own artistic talents - and a world where not everyone succeeds as planned.
There’s never a dull moment at Betts Pets, the neighborhood pet shop introduced in TROUBLE AT BETTS PETS. Now, in CANARIES AND CRIMINALS, the eminently likable Aaron Betts and pals Sharon Trout and Tony Wong - not to mention Loafer the Chauffer (now a poet) - are all back, along with a menagerie of offbeat new characters. When Aaron’s school project leads to an encounter with an ex-convict, and a turtle with an intricate map on its shell turns up at the shop, Aaron and Sharon are drawn into an all-new mystery and even manage to foil an ill-fated heist. Along the way, Aaron learns a few things about his family, his own artistic talents - and a world where not everyone succeeds as planned.
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funny and great, Aug 11 2005
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This review is from: Canaries and Criminals (Hardcover)
I didn't know this book was the sequel to Trouble at Betts Pets when I started reading it. I just liked the cover. It was even better than Trouble at Betts Pets cause the mysterie was scarier and I loved it that the chauffer loafer ends up being a poet. Please, more Betts pets mysteries.
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