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Age Range
8 - 12
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2010-01-01
Page Count
96
Publisher
Yearling
Grade Level
3rd - 7th
ISBN
9780553494648
Lexile
NC1080L
Themes
growing up

Mudshark

Written by Gary Paulsen
The Mudshark Detective Agency is the go-to place for solving mysteries at school. Quick-thinking Mudshark can find your lost homework and your dad's missing car, but his role is being challenged by a psychic parrot now living at the school. The timing is right for another problem-solver because the school is facing a lot of problems, including an escaped gerbil and missing erasers. Mudshark is on the job, and he's also planning on investigating the psychic parrot.
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Age Range
8 - 12
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2010-01-01
Page Count
96
Publisher
Yearling
Grade Level
3rd - 7th
ISBN
9780553494648
Lexile
NC1080L
Themes
growing up
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