Stuart Gibbs

Lion Down

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Why this book counts

  • Life Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Maker / Problem-Solving
  • Story / Adventure

Teddy's mystery begins when a mountain lion is blamed for a dog's death and a public campaign demands that the cat be hunted. Solving the case requires separating accusation from animal evidence, placing wildlife behavior and management inside the suspense and comedy.

The science inside

  • Animals & Zoology
  • Conservation

Your child will meet:

  • An animal's presence near an event is not by itself evidence that the animal caused it.
  • Wildlife-management decisions should use physical evidence and reliable behavior information rather than public pressure alone.
  • Protecting people, pets, and wild predators can create competing conservation goals.

Use it this way

Build an evidence board with three labels: observed clue, character claim, and unanswered question, then move each lion accusation into the correct group as Teddy investigates; never approach, track, or test the behavior of a wild cat.

Parent effort: Quick discussion

Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident sleuth when a lion is falsely accused of killing a distinguished dog in the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series. For once, operations at the enormous zoo/theme park appear to be running smoothly (except for the occasional herring-related mishap in the penguin exhibit) and Teddy Fitzroy is finally able to give detective work a rest. But then a local lion is accused of killing a famous dog--and the dog's owner, an inflammatory radio host, goes on a crusade to have the cat declared a nuisance so it can be hunted. But it looks like the lion might have been framed, and a renegade animal activist wants Teddy and Summer to help prove it. Soon, Teddy finds himself wrapped up in the middle of his most bizarre, hilarious, and dangerous case yet.

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