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Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 7
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Though I, Timmy Failure, have solved many notorious crimes and now wish to enjoy my retirement, my fans have begged me to turn my memoirs into a movie, an ode to my greatness. I am, however, beset by enemies, the worst of whom is Tom John John, the buffoonish movie director.Whats more, my father is in town, working at a bar, which is obviously just a cover for our father-son crime-fighting partnership. And my dim-witted polar bear business partner,...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 28
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The irrepressibly overconfident young sleuth resolves to catapult his detective agency to global fame through the Miracle Report in spite of a temporary setback involving academic probation.
Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to master global domination right after he solves the case involving the coveted Miracle Report at school.
6) Zero to hero
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume Prequel
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Timmy Failure is not just any detective-he is the greatest detective in his town, perhaps the nation. hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all started for our favorite clueless detective-including how he got that red scarf!
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Have you ever had one of those moments? You know--you're trying to find a stolen diamond pencil box for your beautiful butterfly customer, your mosquito witness won't give you any information, and your clumsy scorpion assistant has just tampered with your only bit of evidence?Joey Fly has those moments a lot.
When Joey Fly, Private Eye, is on the case, nothing can stop him from getting his bug. Book #1
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.
Timmy prepares to crack the biggest case of his generation during a school competition to find a stolen globe and win a $500 prize, an effort he pursues with the dubious help of his lazy polar bear partner and his eccentric Great-Aunt Colander.
“Puns,...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a city where candy is illegal and sugar is scandalous, 12-year-old detective Nelle Faulker takes the case of a candy gangster's missing teddy bear before her client's own disappearance leads Nelle to a shady underworld of sweets smuggling, back-alley deals and storefront firebombs.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...
12) Shadowghast
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When townspeople start disappearing after the arrival of a magician who knows about his past, Henry must separate truth from sleight-of-hand to solve the mystery of the Shadowghast lantern before they are all swallowed by darkness"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Continuing to work out of his parents' garage, twelve-year-old private detective Charlie Collier solves a new case for his sixth-grade classmates.
Author
Series
Sean Rosen books volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sean continues to work on his screenplay while juggling seventh grade, track practice, a dog-walking job, recording his podcasts, and trying to keep his movie idea a secret from his parents and a private detective sent by a Hollywood movie studio.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Although twelve-year-old Abby has always tried to deny that she has some kind of weird psychic power, she takes advantage of it to help her mother, a struggling private investigator, and, more importantly, to find her best friend's little brother when he goes missing at a ski resort.
17) Clueless McGee
Author
Series
Clueless McGee volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Through a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee tells of his efforts to discover who stole macaroni and cheese from the school cafeteria.
19) Gargantis
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder....
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence.
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