Chicagoland Detective Agency 5

Name: Chicagoland Detective Agency 5
Brand: Lerner Publishing Group
Price: 12.99 AUD
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The Bark in Space

By: Trina Robbins, Tyler Page (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 January 2013

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Paperback
64 Pages

Age
9 - 14

Grade
4 - 9

Dimensions(cm)
21.7 x 14.7 x 0.64

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Continual requests from librarians for mysteries., Cast reflects the diversity of the Chicago area.

In this interstellar caper, Raf, Megan, and dog pal Bradley are abducted by aliens from the planet Farf Ill. These are not your ordinary aliens-they're intelligent canines who can speak, just like Bradley! But when their princess goes missing, they need help from planet Earth's home team-Rafs gizmos, Megan's eye for clues, and Bradley's gumshoe instincts-to track her down. Once the mystery is solved, will the Farfians' high-tech doggy lifestyle be too tempting for Bradley to pass up, or will his loyalty to his humans prove more powerful than the chance to live where it's the humans who are the pets?

Industry Reviews

There are hundreds of stories about talking dogs, but if this graphic novel is any indication, every book would be better with a dog in it.
The math is simple: A Google search for 'dog' brings up 1,430,000,000 results. So Raf's newest invention ought to be an instant success. It's a dog-to-human translator. The only problem is, dogs don't have much to say. Even Raf's (alien) canine friend Bradley, who happens to speak English, says: '...much as I love my Earth doggie buddies, I gotta admit that, unlike me...they're kinda dim bulbs....' The storyline is busy, even for a Chicagoland Detective Agency comic. There's a missing princess, a dog show, a mad scientist and a saucer full of dogs from the planet Fnarf III. The alien dogs get the best lines, by way of Raf's iDog2 translator, including: 'Human person, can you throw the flying saucer of playing fetch?' The art looks a bit more rushed than in previous volumes, but this is still one of the most inventive stories in a consistently innovative series. And even human beings will sympathize when the Fnarfian Princess Zu-La says, 'Earth people are nice enough, but not very smart...none of them understands me.'
'Relax and enjoy, ' counsels Bradley. 'It's like a carnival ride.' --Kirkus Reviews
-- "Journal"

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