The Case of the Missing Monkey by Cynthia Rylant

When Bunny and Jack realize it must have been a regular customer, since it was taken the day before between 8:00 and 9:00 am, they decide to come back the following day and see all the regulars. Mac needs to figure out who took his glass monkey that stands by the cash register. Bunny and Jack decide to go out to breakfast for some pancakes and when they get there, they end up solving a case for Mac who works at the diner.

This is a great and really funny book about a pair of friends that work together and who solve a mystery together for their friend. High Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Missing Monkey is a great book by Cynthia Rylant, and illustrated by Brian Karas. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers.īunny Brown and Jack Jones – bunny is the brains and Jack is the snoop, and together they crack the case of the missing glass monkey wide open.

Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist. A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular 'Henry and Mudge' easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog.

An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature.

The Case of the Missing Monkey by Cynthia Rylant