Mr. Wolf’s class have a few mysteries they’d like solved. #1 Where did their teacher (Mr. Green) from last year go, #2 what happens to all the playground balls that go over the fence at recess, #3 why don’t they have lockers like they did last year, # 4 why do things keep disappearing from the students’ cubbies, #5 who is and isn’t going to Randy’s birthday party, and #6 one student is always running a new survey question?

The students form a club to solve their school mysteries. As the students work on one mystery, they usually discover at least part of an answer to one of the other mysteries.

By the end of this graphic novel, they discovered Mr. Green is now occasionally working for his daughter in her pizza parlor since he retired. Mr. Green is working the night of Randy’s birthday party at the pizza parlor. While at the birthday party, one of the students returns most of the missing playground equipment he found when he jumped the fence after school, and the biggest mystery might be the rats who are taking the students things at school and then using the items for their own birthday party under the floorboards.

Even though the characters in the book are animals, wearing clothes walking on their two hind legs, readers will be able to identify with the problems, dilemmas, and solutions these students are facing in their school. Well, hopefully not the rats. 🙁