Twelve-year-old Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Fitzroy has murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. He believes that Henry, the hippopotamus at the brand-new FunJungle, has been murdered. The zoo’s top brass claim the hippo went belly up the natural way, but Teddy and his feisty friend Summer McCraken have other ideas. Could the culprit be FunJungle’s animal-hating head of operations? Or is it FunJungle’s owner—Summer’s dad—a man who is much more concerned about money than animal welfare? The deeper Teddy and Summer dig, the more danger they’re in—because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can’t be caged! "Great fun....In his authorial debut, screenwriter Gibbs combines details of the inner workings of zoos with some over-the-top action for an entertaining read." ― Kirkus Reviews Stuart Gibbs has written several screenplays including See Spot Run and  Repli-Kate , worked on many animated films and developed TV shows for Nickelodeon, Disney, ABC, and Fox. Before all that, he studied capybaras (the world's largest rodents) and worked at the Philadelphia Zoo (which is run much better than FunJungle). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, Dashiell and Violet. 'Belly Up' was his first novel, although he has written several more since then, including 'Spy School' and 'The Last Musketeer' trilogy.  A sequel to 'Belly Up' will be published in 2014.Visit him at stuartgibbs.com.