The Governor's Dog Is Missing!

What do you do when Montana’s biggest mysteries land in your lap? If you’re Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney, you get busy solving them. With geologist dads who haul them around the state, the twelve-year-old detectives have a knack for encountering unsolved cases—and landing in heaps of trouble. In The Governor’s Dog is Missing Slate and Daphne find themselves in the Montana capital of Helena. One morning, news erupts across the state—Governor Rickson’s famous dog Cat has disappeared! Suspecting foul play, Slate and Daphne assemble a list of suspects, including the Governor himself. Then, they set out to prove their suspicions. Unfortunately, the truth—and Slate’s and Daphne’s relationship—prove far more complicated than they ever imagined.

Sneed B. Collard III is the author of more than fifty-five books for young readers including the award-winning novels Dog Sense, Flash Point, and Double Eagle. In addition to his fiction, Sneed has written dozens of outstanding nonfiction children's books including Animal Dads, Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials, Shep—Our Most Loyal Dog, and The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale, also available from Bucking Horse Books. In 2006, Sneed was awarded the prestigious Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work. When he is not writing, Sneed can often be found speaking to students, teachers, and librarians across the country.