The High-Rise Private Eyes #8: The Case of the Desperate Duck大厦里的私家侦探#8绝望的鸭子（I Can Read,Level 2）ISBN

　　Mabel’s Tea Room is missing a box of fancy sugar cubes! But
who would steal sugar? And why? Thank goodness the High-Rise
Private Eyes, Jack Jones and Bunny Brown, are on the case!

　　Cynthia Rylant’s gift for conveying the enchantment and beauty
to be found in everyday life is seen in such award-winning books as
Missing May, winner of the Newbery Medal; A Fine White Dust, a
Newbery Honor Book; and The Relatives Came and When I Was Young in
the Mountains, both Caldecott Honor Books.
　　Books she’s written and illustrated include the much-beloved Dog
Heaven and Cat Heaven.
　　Cynthia Rylant grew up in West Virginia. She now lives in the
Pacific Northwest.

　　*STRONG SERIES SALES: Sales of the series are more than
250,000 copies! *ANOTHER FUN NEW STORY: Follow the trail of missing
sugar cubes to…an igloo? *APPEALING CHARACTERS! WONDERFUL HUMOR!
GREAT ART!: Best friends and neighbors Bunny (a rabbit) and Jack (a
raccoon) are an unbeatable slapstick team, depicted in lively
full-color art, packed with visual clues. *RYLANT’S REPUTATION:
Cynthia Rylant is a Newbery Award winning writer and her successful
“Henry & Mudge” and “Cobble Street Cousins” series have
practically made her a brand name in the beginning reader market.
*G. BRIAN KARAS’S FAN BASE: Karas’s recent books (Muncha! Muncha!
Muncha!; Oh No, Gotta Go; and Atlantic) have received acclaim and
numerous starrred reviews, and have had strong trade sales
*INTERNATIONAL HIT: Rights for the series have been sold in France,
Italy, and Spain. *STRONG REVIEWS FOR THE SERIES: “Rylant is
dead-on developmentally. [She] introduces young readers to the
elements of a genre that continues to entertain long after the act
of reading loses its mystery.”—School Library Journal “The humor is
exactly on track for the early elementary grades. It’s no mystery
why this series is successful.”—Kirkus Reviews “Case closed: These
books provide plenty of easy-reading fun.”—