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Life's full of adventure! Right? Middle-grade detectives Sophia MacGregor and Pedro Gonzalez think so. Especially when you are telepathic and speak multiple animal languages!
Being a brilliant ten-year-old in a competitive Eighth Grade Honors Class is a minute-by-minute challenge. Outside school, more challenges abound. When Jack the Polar Bear's regular zookeeper is the victim of a mysterious hit-and-run accident, Super Sleuths Sophia and Pedro find themselves investigating his replacement. A replacement whom Jack and the seals fear and distrust.
Their investigation uncovers a plot by Russian poachers to abduct Jack. Never have the stakes been higher. Instead of battling middle school snobs and bullies, they have just become a target of the Russian mob!
About the author
usan Stoderl worked in New York City in opera as a soloist, chorister, music director, conductor, and composer. Life in NYC involved daily prayers to the Subway Goddess for the train to come and surviving the slight inconvenience of needing a day job. She now writes middle-grade fiction in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Besides Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers series (middle-grade detective books for ages eight to twelve years), Susan also hosts the literacy podcast, Beyond the Books | The Language of Success.The podcast is aired every second and fourth Tuesday of the month on both her web page and her YouTube channel @writer_susanstoderl. Details about the podcasts can also be accessed at https://www.susanstoderl.net/podcast.
Other books in progress include a YA time travel series, The Storyteller, and an adult historical romance, The Blossoming of Bernice.
