Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch are excited about their up-coming bake sale, but when all the treats go missing, Betty and the Bunch work together to find out who is sabotaging their endeavors.
from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye
Hale, Bruce
2001
When fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko is called to catch someone who is stealing food from the school cafeteria, he finds himself framed for the crime.
While the Lunch Lady and the Breakfast Bunch are on a field trip to a local art museum, the Breakfast Bunch realizes that some of the artwork has been replaced with fakes and set out to find the thief responsible.
The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, sets out to stop a group of librarians bent on destroying a shipment of video game systems, while a group of students known as the Breakfast Bunch provides backup.
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and is trying to get the students to eat healthier foods.