Cooper, Jay

When Maria's family embarrasses her while she tries to win her tryout to be the school mascot, she decides she wants to leave the Pepper pack permanently.

Annie wants to adopt a Chihuahua named Azzie, but her siblings all want less typical pets.

On a school field trip to the museum, Dexter puts his brand-new super-secret spy skills to the test when someone has broken into the Egyptian exhibit to steal Pharaoh Hun-Ga-Re's greatest treasure: a sacred sandwich that can raise the dead. But who could be hungry enough to want a six-thousand-year-old snack? With an army of robot ninjas, a mustachioed mystery man, and a sneaky new classmate lurking around every corner, it's up to Dex to find the petrified hoagie first and save the world from a monstrous mummy's ancient curse.

"Third-grader Dexter Drabner dreams of being a skateboarding-hero-spy, while contending with his nemesis at school, Millicent the bully--and when science teacher Mr. McFur's prized lab rat, Pretty, eats a piece of radioactive gamma broccoli and grows to the size of an elephant, he gets his chance to save the school from destruction"--OCLC.