TY - BOOK AU - O'Grady,Paul AU - Hellard,Susan TI - The Amsterdam adventure T2 - Eddie Albert and the amazing animal gang SN - 9780008470654 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - HarperCollins Children's Books KW - Boys KW - Children's fiction KW - Human-animal communication KW - Pets KW - Aunts KW - Eccentrics and eccentricities KW - Good and evil KW - Orangutans KW - Friendship KW - Animals KW - Animal experimentation KW - Amsterdam (Netherlands) KW - Animal fiction KW - lcgft KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - Humorous fiction N1 - Pre-adolescent N2 - Unbeknownst to anyone, somewhat-unhappy and never-quite-fitting in 10-year-old Eddie Albert can speak to animals, including his pet dog Butch, his hamster and his two goldfish (who claim they were once pirates). But when Eddie is sent to stay with his eccentric aunt in Amsterdam, he discovers that she too has this gift. So begins a breathless cosmopolitan comic crime adventure, as Eddie, Aunt Budge, his new friend Flo and a whole gang of amazing animals take on the most-dastardly villain Amsterdam has ever seen, in a desperate race against time to save one of their own ER -