The Midnight Zoo Crew – The Mystery of the Missing Roar

Description

Welcome to Whistlewick Zoo—where the animals have secrets, the tunnels have mysteries, and midnight lasts thirteen magical minutes.

Eleven-year-old Asha Patel thinks her summer as a junior keeper will involve feeding animals, cleaning enclosures and trying not to get into trouble.

She is wrong.

A penguin steals her name badge. A llama spits at suspicious visitors. A red panda escapes into the gift shop. Then the zoo’s famous clock tower stops roaring—and somebody is seen moving through the zoo after dark carrying something shaped like a lion’s head. 

Things become even stranger when the clock strikes thirteen.

For a few extraordinary minutes each midnight, Asha and her friends can understand the animals. Pickle the penguin has clues. Tiberius the tortoise remembers the past—very, very slowly. Mango the hornbill repeats mysterious warnings. And somewhere beneath Whistlewick, an underground secret is waiting to be uncovered. 

Together, Asha, Zeke, Frankie and Max become the Midnight Zoo Crew, following bootprints, stolen keys, strange maps and animal clues through hidden passages beneath the zoo. But with Founders’ Night approaching and the zoo’s wetland mysteriously losing water, they are running out of time. 

Packed with humour, friendship, talking animals, secret tunnels and a page-turning mystery, The Midnight Zoo Crew: The Mystery of the Missing Roar is an illustrated middle-grade adventure for young readers who love animals, mysteries and stories with a touch of magic.

Perfect for fans of:
animal adventures • funny mysteries • secret passages • magical friendships • junior detectives • zoo stories • illustrated chapter books

First edition. Published in the United Kingdom by Questbound Studios Ltd.