Chet Gecko is a very smartmouthed little detective. He and his bird partner, Natalie Attired, are risking their own necks to try and solve the latest mystery. One by one, the members of the football team are going missing. A Herman the Gila Monster has "hired" them to find them and bring them back before their next big game. Unfortunately, he's not very subtle about pressuring Chet to hurry up and solve the case. Chet, a very small lizard, even has to resort to joining the team to get closer to the football players and try to come up with some more clues. Will Chet be able to solve this mystery or will he be flattened by his enemy, Herman the Gila Monster?
I give this book:
Fun Features:
* great humor
* excellent figurative language
*entertaining story line
* amusing main character
* good title choices
I was really amused by this book. There was great voice from the very start. The plot was also very engaging and the culprit wasn't glaringly obvious. My biggest concern for this book is that there is so much figurative language and vague humor that I'm not sure that students below 5th grade would really be able to understand it.
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