It Came from Beneath the Playground — Kirk Scroggs

WHEN CRIMINALS KIDNAP YOUR PLAYGROUND...WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
THE SNOOP TROOP!

Fifth-grade detective Logan Lang is facing the biggest case of her career. Someone is commanding an army of criminal moles to steal everything kids love. Toys! Carousels! Even the school playground! All of them sucked underground without a trace.

Logan will have to team up with her longtime nemesis and super-cop wannabe Gustavo Muchomacho if she wants to stop the subterranean scoundrels. With her serious doodling skills and his arsenal of high-tech spy mustaches, they'll race against the clock to unearth the master of these malevolent mammals.

With art on every page, interactive seek-and-find elements, word jumbles, instructions for drawing suspects, and a chance to solve the mystery, this wildly wacky chapter book/graphic novel mash-up is just right for newly independent readers. And bonus back matter is loaded with extra puzzles and doodle activities!