about the book
Rick Zengo and Corey O’Malley are platypuses. They are also police officers. Zengo is a rookie and O’Malley is a grizzled veteran. Zengo only wants to live up to the legacy of his grand- father, a police officer who helped to rid Kalamazoo City of the evil crime boss Frank Pandini, Sr.. But with slow-paced Detective O’Malley, Zengo worries he will never get his chance at greatness.
Then along comes the team’s first case.
Investigating some fishy business at the docks, Zengo and O’Malley discover that it could have something to do with the disappearance of a popular high school teacher named William Hopkins.
And guess who is involved? Frank Pandini, Jr., who claims to be trying to undo the work of his father, but Zengo knows better.
The case is on.
about the author
Jarrett J. Krosoczka was raised by his mom’s parents, Joseph and Shirley, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is eternal grateful to them for helping to foster his talent as an illustrator and as a writer by sending him to classes at the Worcester Art Museum. Jarrett takes pride in knowing that his Grandpa Joe also had talent in drawing; he passed his skills down to Jarrett’s mom, who passed them on to him!
Everything Grandpa Joe owned was earned by him through hard work and determination, and he helped Jarrett to develop a hard-working attitude, too.
Jarrett got his first book published in 2001, and since then he has developed a faithful following of readers who have been with him through his children’s picture books to his older-reader graphic novels, and now, with Platypus Police Squad, his chapter books.
Today Jarrett lives happily with his dream job, his dream wife, his dream daughters, and their goofy pug dog named Ralph Macchio.
Source:
Author website
Also by Jarrett J. Krosoczka :
The Lunch Lady graphic novel series. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 2009-2013.
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