Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs

The Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries #7

by Ann M. Martin

When Stoneybrook's pet population becomes inexplicably depleted, Dawn and the rest of the Baby-sitters play detective in order to locate them. Original.

Genres: Mystery, Middle Grade, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Contemporary, Collections

152 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.

Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.

Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.

Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.

After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...

Reviews

[FIND ME ON STORYGRAPH · Rating 1 out of 5]

this is my first time reading this book!

in this paragon of flawed logic by ghostwriter Ellen Miles one of the mancusis' (from Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter) dogs and shannon the puppy disappear, both while clipped to outdoor chains. news reports come in about many other dogs getting dognapped in similar situations as well. meanwhile, the krushers and the bashers (kristy and bart's softball teams) create an all-star team, the krashers (how clever!) to face off against a softball team from the nearby town of new hope.

highlights:
-two of the nearby towns where dogs have been reported missing are new hope, ct and lawrenceville, ct. I like to think that ellen named these towns for new hope, pa and the semi-nearby lawrenceville, nj (or maybe even mistakenly named for new hope's neighboring town, lambertville, nj).
-dawn and co go to the police station to report the license plate number of a green car they've seen driving around (that dawn thinks is probably the car of the dognapper). the cop DOES NOT CARE. he even says something condescending along the lines of, "let the big boys solve the crime. go home to your homework, little girls." YES. I like this because it is realistic. it is so annoying to think that the bsc are just these flawless model citizens and everyone in the town thinks so. no. in real life people would be like, "who are these nosy irritating teenagers that keep harassing me?"
-the guy who actually did it is one of the richest guys in town. I appreciate that, because I find it really irritating earlier in the book when the cop is like, "no, that license plate belongs to a rich guy, and we have no reason to suspect rich guys of committing crimes..." the one problem is that it's explained that he isn't rich anymore and that's why he's doing this -- selling the dogs to people who want purebred dogs and making money that way. but I wish he was still rich and either evil schemes are how he got rich in the first place, OR he just has some mental health stuff and really likes to kidnap dogs, OR to practice chaotic evil roleplay or something.


lowlights/nitpicks:
-dawn says she doesn't really care for animals and is bewildered by people who kiss or talk to their pets. she says she's a vegetarian because she doesn't like the taste of meat. UGHHHHHH. I think I might hate dawn, guys.
-the mancusi dogs want to pee the second dawn gets to their house. why does dawn wait until after she's fed and cleaned the cages of all the other animals to let the dogs out? I think the guinea pigs can wait 20 minutes to have their cage cleaned. if she had been a good pet caretaker, walking the dogs FIRST, then she wouldn't have had to clip cheryl the great dane outside to pee, and then cheryl wouldn't have gotten taken in the first place.
-dawn (and the mancusis) only feed barney the snake insects and worms -- huh? snakes need to eat mammals to survive, don't they?
-jessi theorizes that the rich guy steals dogs for some psychological reason and dawn thinks that's far-fetched. "what kind of psychological reason could there be to steal dogs?" uh, kleptomania? sociopathy? some sort of manic episode had by an animal liberationist that makes them want to free all tied-up animals?
-mary anne is concerned about the legality of following mr. tate, the rich guy. kristy says, "there's nothing illegal about looking at someone." -- uh, yeah, that's stalking. which is illegal.
-WHY IS EVERYONE IN THIS TOWN BUYING DOGS? WHERE ARE THE ANIMAL SHELTERS?
-the core premise is flawed. dude steals dogs from the town and then sells them back to the people of the town AT A PET STORE. not even black market. seriously? what if someone was like, "aww, my great dane was stolen, so now I want a new one." do you think they wouldn't recognize their stolen dog? this is a pretty small town, so I don't see how this scheme could have worked even as long as it did.

claudia outfit:
-"She was still wearing her school clothes: a blue minidress with white polka dots, white leggings, and earrings that looked like big white polka dots."

jackie disaster:
-picks up more baseball equipment than he can carry and drops it all over the place

snack in claudia's room:
-doritos under a pile of sweaters

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars. This wasn’t that interesting and the mystery of the disappearing dogs wasn’t that big but it was cute. Dawn books are always fun in that I just love Dawn’s character so much. She’s great. While this was nothing that great it was a cute way to pass the time.

[Ciara · Rating 3 out of 5]

this one opens with dawn thinking about how weird people get over their pets. she describes mary anne holding tigger the wonder kitten up to get kisses from dawn, & while she is babysitting for the barretts that afternoon, mrs. mancusi (she of the home zoo featured in book #22, jessi ramsey, pet sitter) strolls by, chattering away at her dogs. dawn finds all of this very weird. dawn says that she tries to avoid mrs. mancusi because she's worried she will want to have a long talk with pow, the barretts' basset hound.

at the babysitters club meeting, mrs. mancusi calls about a short-term pet sitter. she & mr. mancusi decided to go out of town for a few days & they need someone to look after the menagerie. dawn is the only one free, so she grudgingly takes the job. she explains that she doesn't hate animals...she's just not crazy about them. she says that she's not a vegetarian because she feels sorry for the cows. she just doesn't like the taste of meat. who the hell doesn't like the taste of meat? okay, a lot of people. even people who eat it. but i love it.

during dawn's second day pet sitting, cheryl, the great dane, is acting desperate to go outside. she follows dawn all over the house while dawn looks after the other animals, & flips her shit when dawn uses the word "walk". so dawn decides to clip cheryl to the stake in the front yard while she finishes up with the inside animals. when she gathers up the other two dogs for a group walk & goes outside, cheryl is gone. dawn checks the clip, but everything looks fine. it looks like someone let cheryl off the clip. dawn canvasses the neighborhood & enlists the help of the other babysitters & their charges for the afternoon, but they can't find cheryl anywhere. dawn has to break the news to the mancusis when they get home.

the babysitting B-plot is that a boy in new hope coaches a softball team similar to bart's bashers & kristy's krushers, & wants to organize a game. so bart & kristy put their teams together & choose the best players to form the krashers, the stoneybrook all-star team. as softball plots in babysitters club books go, this one is pretty fucking boring, so i'm not going to waste any time on it. all that matters is that the big game is in new hope, which actually impacts the (admittedly ludicrous) A-plot.

so. dawn feels bad about cheryl going missing. she still feels bad when she attends a krashers practice a few days later. during the practice, she notices a dark green car in the parking lot. it's the same dark green car that she noticed while she was walking the mancusis' dogs on her first day. she feels creeped out & wonders what the green car is doing there.

the next thing we know, shannon, david michael's bernese mountain puppy, goes missing. of course everyone is really sad about this. kristy is even late to a babysitters club meeting because she was out looking for shannon. then dawn reads in the paper that there has been a rash of dog-nappings in various small towns near stoneybrook, & even within stoneybrook. dawn begins to wonder if the missing dogs were actually napped, which would explain why they haven't wandered home on their own.

there's also a new pet store in town, which mary anne likes to visit in order to buy new cat treats for tigger. mary anne is totally going to grow up to be that lady who has a cat mosh pit. she'll have like seventy cats & she'll just throw cat food up in the air & let the cats duke it out for nourishment. mary anne convinces dawn to go to the pet store with her, & dawn sees the car again. she becomes convinced that the car belongs to the pet napper. she gets all the babysitters on the job to ride their bikes around town & look for the green car. because it's easiest to find a moving target when you are also moving, right? anyway, somehow they find it & dawn writes down the license plate number. she then take the number & gives it to the police. the cop she talks to seems really bored & unimpressed with her efforts, but says he will call. because cops routinely call random civilians that bring in crime tips to let them know how those tips worked out? i don't think so. anyway, he doesn't call, so dawn follows up on her own, & the cop practically laughs her out of the station. turns out the car belongs to karl tate, one of the richest men in town (& the cop tells dawn this...why?). the cop is sure that there's no way karl tate is involved in any dog-napping. again...why? because rish people are always so virtuous?

dawn is disappointed, but she doesn't know what else she can do. then she gets an idea about the pet store. she, kristy, & mary anne visit the pet store. dawn makes a note of what dogs they have available, & then asks for a dog breed they don't have. the owner says they don't have that kind of dog, but maybe he can get her one if she leaves a hefty deposit. dawn says she'll ask her parents & leaves, but she actually got the information she wanted. she finds it very suspicious that the pet store seems to offer dogs to order. she says most pet shops would have recommended a breeder, or had information about specifically when to expect a certain breed of dog to be in stock. there's something fishy about this pet store.

at the krashers game in new hope, dawn is sitting in the stands when she galnces over & sees a woman in a red sweatsuit--not mrs. mancusi--walking a dog that looks a lot like cheryl, the missing great dane. dawn bolts from the stands & tracks the woman & her dog to a local field that people use as a dog run. she is sure that the dog is cheryl. she gets mary anne to stay put & keep an eye on the woman while dawn runs off to call the police. a new hope cop arrives & asks the woman how long she's had her dog, which she is calling cleo. the woman says, "about a week," & goes on to explain that she got the dog from the new pet store in stoneybrook, & "she cost the world, but she was worth it." dawn jumps into the conversation & exclaims that the dog is stolen. the woman is amazingly credulous & is all, "well, someone must really be missing this dog!" she agrees to go down to the station & the new hope cop says that she'll call dawn later with all the details. because cops do that for people that were not actually victims of any crime. oh wait, no, they don't.

anyway, after the game (the krashers won), dawn & mary anne go to the station & arrive just in time to see mrs. mancusi's joyous reunion with cheryl. shannon is there too, & david michael is stoked to see her. the cop who first dismissed dawn is there (even though he was a stoneybrook cop & i thought they were in new hope at this point) & he's all, "you were right! turns out mr. tate was stealing all these dogs! he lost a bundle in real estate & needed to make some money. he pitched the idea of a dog-stealing ring to that new pet store & they were all over it. people would request a breed & they'd go out & steal it for them. turned out they made better money doing that than running a regular pet store! but they're all locked up now & the dogs will be reunited with their owners. i don't think any more dogs are going to be stolen around here!" way to just say that all these people are guilty before there's even been a trial. what the fuck. this is not the way cops operate. whoever wrote the book even had the cop saying things like, "he lost a bundle, see." because cops talk that way. ridiculous. & the conclusion is so "why, it's old man withers from the haunted amusement park!" "& i would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" the scene in which the cops stopped mr. tate & pulled off his realistic latex face mask to reveal his true identity is not in the book...but i think we can all assume that's what happened.

god, the mystery books are terrible.

[lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dawn decides to get involved when pets in Stoneybrook start to go missing. This fairly dull book becomes highly relevant later in the series for several reasons.

Things I remember from reading this as a kid:
I read this book when it first came out (I was probably nine or ten), and I didn't like it. I wasn't really into dogs, so people losing their dogs didn't upset me that much. It also talked a lot about Dawn pet sitting for the Mancusis, which was just as boring in this book as it was in Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter. As a kid, I thought the police officer Dawn dealt with was a jerk, but I understood that being pestered by a bunch of shrill, nosy girls would be annoying for a cop. I remember reading this book over a weekend, and completely dismissing it.

What I do remember more vividly of this book is reading the Super Mystery Baby Sitters Beware! when I was eleven or twelve, as I was starting to age out of the series. I thought the Super Mysteries were good actually, when I was that age. In Baby Sitters Beware! the BSC is being stalked in a majorly creepy way by a guy they determine to be Karl Tate, who they took down in the pet-napping ring in Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs. It turns out that the photo in the newspaper they mention at the end of this book cropped out Jessi and Mallory because they were at the ends of the photo, which saves them from dealing with the harassment the other baby sitters experience.



Things I've considered since reading this as an adult:
Dawn says she doesn't eat meat because it doesn't taste good to her, not because she feels bad for animals. I distinctly remember Dawn going on and on in the school cafeteria about how horrible slaughterhouses are. I can't remember what book it's in, but I remember that the BSC made fun of her for having photos of slaughtered cows. Also, in this book Dawn is not eager to fill in for Kristy when she's late to a BSC meeting, but she has mentioned several times in previous books that she would love to fill in for Kristy.

Dawn is upset because she takes down the number of the license plate of the car she thinks was following her the day before Cheryl the Great Dane goes missing, and the police don't take it seriously. She didn't set up the scenario for the police the right way! The car made her nervous because she noticed it driving slowly past her not once, but twice when she was watching small children. She and Jessi even have a stranger danger talk with Becca and Charlotte the first time they see the car, because they're worried the car might be casing the young girls. Dawn only thinks of the car in connection with the dogs going missing later. If she tells the police that there's a creepy car that hangs out every time she's baby sitting and it's making herself, and the parents of the kids she's watching nervous, then the police would probably have taken her a little more seriously. But no. Dawn makes herself sound like a stupid, earnest child by insisting that she "knows" the car is connected to pet theft. How does she know this? No wonder the police laugh at her. And then Dawn throws a tantrum (she's been hanging around Claire Pike too long) when her mother doesn't stay home over the weekend so Dawn has no idea if the police called her with information. And then stamps her feet when she can't investigate whether Stacey really saw a pet theft or not. Dawn is very childish in this book.

As a kid I thought the plot of stealing dogs was ridiculous, but as an adult I can understand that it would be lucrative. Some purebred breeds cost thousands of dollars, and it can be very expensive to breed dogs also.

This book was so boring I couldn't believe it. In addition to unnecessary descriptions of Dawn's stint as a pet sitter, there are way too many scenes about Kristy and Bart coaching their newly formed Krashers (a combined team of Krushers and Bashers, get it? So clever). There's even several stupid scenes with Claire Pike throwing tantrums because she's too young to play with the Krashers. She and Suzi Barrett make signs that say "Krashers are mean!" and show up at their practice to protest. I very much doubt this form of protest would enter the mind of two five year olds.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't read a ton of the mystery books when I was a kid, just a few. This was one I hadn't read, and I'm glad I didn't. I'd have probably written a little kiddish mean letter to Ann M. Martin about what a freaking sadist Dawn is.

First off, this chick is always up everyone's butt about saving the environment and being healthy and all this jazz. Yet she claims she doesn't really like animals all that much and doesn't eat meat just because she doesn't like the taste. Not, you know, because she really cares about the cow. Excuse me, but what? I was vegan for a pretty big stretch of time, and a vegetarian for even longer. I stopped because I went through a phase of life where the idea of eating a helpless animal really got to me, and I couldn't do it. There are still a LOT of things I won't eat, and it's because I'm a healthy person. I'm totally not, I'm fat and I like junk food and I know it's a horrible lifestyle, but still. This made NO SENSE TO ME ON A FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL AND I HATE DAWN.

Anyway. The book.

She's sitting for the people from Jessie Ramsey, Pet Sitter who have the 50000 animals in their house. Dawn is derpy about all of this, and doesn't just walk the dogs when she arrives and makes the poor creatures wait. She tethers out a Great Dane named Cheryl, who gets stolen. Later on Shannon (not on Dawn's watch, alas) also gets stolen. It turns out one of the most rich guys in town is in some money troubles, and is stealing dogs and having them resold through a local pet store.

What if the owner of the stole dog wanted to "replace it" (some people ARE assholes like that), went to the store, asked for another Great Dane or whatever, and got their own dog back? Also I hated the entire B-plot with the Krushers and Bashers and how that basically only took place to give Dawn 2 pages of writing to clear up the mystery. I really do not like the little kid softball books at all, so having that in this one was obnoxious. At least this ones off the list!

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is about the point in the BSC Mystery series where they jump the shark and stop being believable. Going from a missing diamond ring (it was the cat), creepy notes (a kid that they got in trouble, even a missing kid (he was stuck in a construction site), these were all stories that were plausible, could happen to anyone, and felt like they could be resolved by a group of young teenagers.

In this book, Dawn busts a dog-napping ring, run by the richest man in Stoneybrook (who needed to come up with a scheme after he lost his fortune, natch.) And it's just... ridiculous. Like, I get Dawn and friends noticing the green car. But... I don't know, for Dawn to tie it to the new pet store, and to figure out the way the pet store operated with no hints, it just seems far-fetched. And for all the Stoneybrookites to be so in tune with who the local wealthy population is. ("I've seen Mr Tate at the new pet store!") but to not notice that their new dog they've adopted is the one that was recently stolen from their neighbours. It's just so Scooby-Doo.

And it doesn't end with dog-nappers. Jumping the shark means we get counterfeiters, art forgeries, even a good old-fashioned cat burglar. And I'm sure the criminals would have gotten away with all of it, if it weren't for those meddling baby-sitters!

[Jaclyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually stay away from mysteries were animals are in danger, but the good thing about BSC mysteries is that you know no one will actually get seriously hurt. This one was kinda scary, like all those poor dogs and dog owners. And boo on the villain and their greed.

A pet store features prominently here. I like to think that if it were published today, the BSC members would've been a lot more vocal about adopting animals from shelters rather than buying them from pet stores. Then again, I remember when Mary Anne adopted Tigger, one of her dad's conditions was that she give a shelter kitty a good home, so go Richard Spier! (I also like to think that soft-hearted Mary Anne today would be more likely to consider selecting a senior cat rather than a kitten as they're less likely to be adopted!)

This book also contains the surprising revelation that Dawn -- vegetarian, 'save the Earth' Dawn -- actually isn't fond of animals at all. In fact, she's vegetarian not because of any concern about animal welfare or carbon footprints, but simply because she doesn't like the taste of red meat! That's...a bit disappointing, to be honest. Not that there's anything wrong with avoiding red meat simply because you don't like the taste. But vegetarianism as an ethical lifestyle choice was SUCH a Dawn thing to do, so to find out it was nothing but a preference all along kinda dilutes the crusader-ism of her character for me.

[Lianna Kendig · Rating 1 out of 5]

(LL)
I don’t think I can articulate well enough how much I hate Dawn after reading this book.
She’s a piece of crap. She lectures people about how she’s a vegetarian because eating animals is terrible, but that’s all bullshit because she’s only a vegetarian because she doesn’t like the taste of red meat. It’s fine if you don’t like the taste of something, but don’t go around acting superior to others about being a vegetarian and eating healthy because you simply can’t handle the taste of meat.
Moreover, she doesn’t understand why owners give their pets affection or spend money on toys? WTF is wrong with this kid and why did she get to be the main narrator of this book if she doesn’t care about animals?
Ugh. I really tried to like Dawn, but I just can’t deal with her condescending attitude over everything anymore. The story wasn’t good either, so that didn’t help Dawn’s terrible narrating at all. It could have been so much better if Kristy or Mary Anne were the focus of the story instead of Dawn.

Lastly, no criminal is so stupid they’d steal the animals from the same town they are selling them in.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is odd, and I can't even say I disliked it.

Right off the bat, Dawn aggressively lets us know that she basically doesn't give a shit about animals. Even her vegetarianism is boiled down to, "I don't care if the animals die, I just don't want to eat them." Such a weird tone for the rest of this book.

The real mystery of this book is whether Ann M. Martin meant this book to be a political skewering of the criminal justice system. Most of the plot is actually about Dawn and the BSC having to hunt down a dognapping ring because the Stoneybrook Police Department refuses to follow up on leads and believes rich people shouldn't be investigated even if they're a person of interest in a crime. What???

I'm going to bump it up to three stars because I would absolutely wear Dawn's outfit on the cover tomorrow.

[Devon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I remember being sad when Dawn left in the series (sorry, spoiler alerts...) but I'm starting to understand why it happened. The past few Dawn books have been so awful I can't imagine her character being very popular around this point in time. It's fine to not be crazy about animals but...Dawn is pretty awful in this book, even if she does change her tune a bit by the end it's for selfish reasons.

The secondary arc in this book was very, very pinned on and barely noticeable as well.

That said, I did like that it was an actual mystery that needed to be solved this time (sorry, Mystery at Claudia's House).

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

This whole pet-shop-that's-not-a-pet-shop plot is so bizarre. But, this does bring back the Mancusis, whom I love, and also ties in later to Baby-sitters Beware, which is my favorite Super Mystery. For those reasons alone, I like this book.

[Caralyn Rubli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can the girls solve the mystery of the disappearing dogs?

[Christina]

Read my recap at A Year with the BSC via Stoneybrook Forever: https://www.livethemovies.com/bsc-blo...

[Marley Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good little throw back…

[Liesl]

It’s nice to see the origins of Karl Tate, who makes a brief appearance again in “Super Mystery #2: Babysitters Beware.”

[Brenda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I laughed when Dawn was searching for a phone at the park. We definitely take things for granted now. :)

[JH · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid read. It surprised me that a vegetarian would have such disdain for animals, but whatever.

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dawn was such a such weird choice to narrate this book. It literally opens with her talking about how much she doesn't like dogs.

[Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was probably one of the first mysteries that didn't put me to sleep while still being slightly realistic too. Dawn gets a job pet sitting for the Mancusi's the ones with many pets. While caring for the animals their great Dane is stolen from the front yard where she'd been tied up. Then Shannon goes missing (the dog not the person) and more and more dogs vanish from yards and public parks. Dawn sees a green car driving around at first she thinks they're after the kids but then realizes they're looking for dogs. There is a new pet store in town that keeps odd hours seems to have purebred dogs one at a time instead of a litter and Dawn figures something is up with that place. Having read Babysitters Beware it was nice to read this one to get an idea of where that story technically began. The b plot has the Krushers and Bashers joining forces to play a team from New Hope. The new team name is the Krashers and of course Claire Pike is a brat about not being able to play. What happened to Jamie Newton? Wasn't he on the team? Why didn't he make an appearance? Anyway Kristy has a lot going on with David Michael sad about his dog being gone and the big game. As I said this was one of the more realistic mysteries. Dawn is dismissed as just being a dumb kid looking to solve a mystery which is really how most cops would act when confronted by some kid know it all with a license plate number. Like another reviewer I think this wasn't the best book for Dawn to star in. She's not an animal person as she states right at the start. Why not have Kristy who has a huge role in both plotlines? Why not Jessi who originally cared for the Mancusi pets? Or Mallory whose siblings were involved in the big game, or even Mary Anne who loves Tigger and all kittens ad she almost blew her cover to pet a newly bought kitten (I'm so Mary Anne in that part). Dawn just didn't fit the storyline as well as some of the others would've but oh well it was still a pretty good story anyway.

[Marian · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those BSC books where if you loathe Dawn, you'll use it as an example of how annoying she can be. For me, it's one of those books where I remember 90% of what's going to happen and the rest is a bit of a surprise. I didn't remember Dawn's "animal people are weird" stance and it kind of grates.

[Kristin Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would be perfect for children who liked to read mysteries. Throughout the story, you see how Dawn grows from becoming not so much of an animal person to actually enjoying animals. I could see this being a good book to read to my students in a read aloud session.

[Sally · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a dog-lover, I of course had to read this one although I never cared as much for the mystery series. Still, really enjoyed it!

[Christian Singer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun case about missing pets. Young readers will enjoy the mystery but might worry over their beloved pet's safety.

[Pete Payton · Rating 2 out of 5]

My first BSC read,and it just had to be a mystery. 5/10.

[Stephanie (Once Upon a Chapter) · Rating 4 out of 5]

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