By: Stan and Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House; 1997
Reading Level: ~ 8-12 yrs
Number of Pages: 102
Genre: Animal Fantasy/Mystery
Summary: Beartown is having a Classic Car Show. Papa wants to put the red roadster in the show, but it is missing some vital pieces if they want it to be a winner. So, Brother and Bonnie go to the "auto graveyard" to see if they can find the missing pieces. And you guessed it, they found them! They get the car all nice and fixed up and entered into the show, but on the day of the show, eight cars are MISSING! Including Papa's Red Roadster. The police put the "Bear Detectives" to work to solve this mystery. The team of children get together and start finding and following clues. The clues lead them straight to the "auto graveyard" which is the business "Parts R Us" owned by the father of a boy from school named Too Tall. They go into the graveyard to try to see if they can do anything else. But Too Tall found them and begged them not to tell the police yet because he knows it wasn't his father that did it. So they make a deal to stay the night and keep watch of the place. Late into the night they see ghost looking creatures drive the cars away. They follow them and discover they had been using a boat house to get the cars out of town. They inform the police and the car thieves are caught. It turns out that the thieves were escaped prisoners of Bear Country Jail. The cars are all returned to their owners and the show goes on and Papa wins third place in the show.
Problems: There is quite a bit of name calling and threatening by children.
Reaction: I thought this was a good book for children to read. I feel like reading it would give them a sense of accomplishment. It was really enjoyable and had me at the edge of my seat the whole time.
Recommendation: Children who may be struggling to get into reading. The story is fun, there are illustrations on almost every page, so it breaks it up a little. Not to mention the good morals.
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