Publisher's Synopsis
The Pet Detective has his work cut out when his favourite football goes missing. With his dog, Rooney, he sets out to follow the clues; an open window; a missing football; a dirty big footprint; a bubblegum wrapper and a rustle in the bushes. It isn't long before the Pet Detective has located the culprit.
- Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
- Text type - A story by the same author.
- A storyboard on pages 22 and 23 provides an opportunity for children to retell the story in their own words.
- Curriculum links - Citizenship: Animals and us.
- Tortoise Trouble is another Pet Detective story by Jana Hunter in the Collins Big Cat series.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
