

Notorious
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Keenan has lived all over the world but nowhere quite as strange as Centerlight Island, which is split between the United States and Canada. The only thing weirder than Centerlight itself is his neighbor Zarabeth, aka ZeeBee. ZeeBee is obsessed with the island’s history as a Prohibition-era smuggling route. She’s also convinced that her beloved dog, Barney, was murdered—something Keenan finds pretty hard to believe.
Just about everyone on Centerlight is a suspect, because everyone hated Barney, a huge dog—part mastiff, part rottweiler—notorious for terrorizing the community. Accompanied by a mild-mannered new dog who is practically Barney’s opposite, ZeeBee enlists Keenan’s help to solve the mystery. As Keenan and ZeeBee start to unravel the clues, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that dates back to Centerlight’s gangster past. The good news is that Keenan may have found the best friend he’s ever had. The bad news is that the stakes are sky-high.
ISBN: 9780062798862
JLG Release: Mar 2020
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Book Details
ISBN
9780062798862
First Release
March 2020
Genre
Fic
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Page Count
320
Accelerated Reader
Level 5; Points: 9;
Scholastic Reading Counts
N/ALexile
Level 740L
Format
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Potentially Sensitive Areas
None
Topics
Friendship, Middle schools, Schools, Buried treasure, Gangsters, Islands, U,S,-Canada border,