Stuart Gibbs
10 SeriesStuart Gibbs is an American author known for his children's series, FunJungle and Spy School. Before becoming a novelist, he wrote screenplays for films such as See Spot Run, Repli-Kate, and Showdown, and worked on various animated projects. He resides in Los Angeles, California.
In "Belly Up" by Stuart Gibbs, the first book of the FunJungle series, twelve-year-old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy suspects foul play in the death of Henry, the hippopotamus at the new FunJungle zoo. Despite the zoo's claim of a natural death, Teddy and his friend Summer McCraken launch an investigation. Their suspicions focus on FunJungle's animal-hating head of operations and Summer's father, the zoo's owner, who prioritizes profit over animal welfare. As they delve deeper, Teddy and Summer uncover dangerous truths about the potential hippo homicide.
