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Hale, Bruce.
THE CHAMELEON WORE CHARTREUSE : FROM THE TATTERED CASEBOOK FO CHET GECKO, PRIVATE EYE
New York : Harcourt, 2000
IL 3-6, RL 5.5
ISBN  0152022813
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Fourth grader, Chet Gecko is a Private Eye with a reputation for solving mysteries. When Shirley Chameleon who is “cute, green and scaly and smells like grasshoppers” comes to him for help in finding her missing first grade brother, Chet Gecko smells trouble. But the reward of a slice of stinkbug pie proves too much to resist so Chet takes the case. With Natalie Mockingbird, his brainy partner, Chet Gecko solves the riddle posed by the nasty Rat sisters and follows the clues to the dump where the case unravels. Will Chet Gecko survive a meeting with the evil Herman the gila monster along with the entire football team? Will he be able to save Shirley’s little brother and earn that slice of Stinkbug Pie? Come join the fun and mayhem as Chet Gecko cracks another case.  (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2004-2005)
SUBJECTS:     Geckos -- Fiction.
                        Lizards -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Lost and found possessions -- Fiction.
                        Mystery and detective stories.

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