Author: Mary Borsky
Title: Benny Bensky and the Perogy Palace
Illustrator: Linda Hendry
Genre: Fiction (mystery)
Subgenre: Children's Book
Theme: The bad guy always gets caught.
Primary and secondary characters: Benny, Rosie, Fran, and their parents.
Date of Publication: 2001
Publishing Company: Tundra Books
Benny Bensky used to be a happy dog living with his humans, Rosie and her parents. But things are not happy in the Bensky house. Rosie’s mom and dad operates the most popular restaurant in town, the Perogy Palace. At least, it used to be popular. Now customers are staying away in droves. Even Benny will not eat there anymore. Benny, Rosie, and Fran try to solve the mystery, on why people are not coming to the restaurant anymore. They use their detective skills, but get into a little mischief, and Benny gets sent to obedience school. This stalls their mystery, but when Benny comes back they are better then ever. They realize that someone is switching out the labels to the ingredients, and putting different stuff in each container. Benny catches Ms. Viola Pin, and traps her. Mrs. Viola gets startled and falls into a bucket of soapy water. The cops come in, and they were about to take Benny, when Rosie and Fran tell them what happened. They take Viola instead.
This book is a good book to read to students to teach them that they are not too young to be detectives.
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