Take Timmy Failure—the clueless, comically
self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the
nation. Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear
named Total. Throw in the Failuremobile—Timmy’s mom’s Segway—and what you have
is Total Failure, Inc., a global enterprise destined to make Timmy so rich his
mother won’t have to stress out about the bills anymore. Of course, Timmy’s
plan does not include the four-foot-tall female whose name shall not be
uttered. And it doesn’t include Rollo Tookus, who is so obsessed with getting
into “Stanfurd” that he can’t carry out a no-brainer spy mission.
From the offbeat creator of Pearls Before Swine comes an endearingly bumbling hero in a caper
whose peerless hilarity is accompanied by a whodunit twist. With perfectly
paced humor, Stephan Pastis gets you snorting with laughter, then slyly carries
the joke a beat further—or sweetens it with an unexpected poignant
moment—making this a story (the first in a new series) that truly stands apart
from the pack.
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“Middle grade readers will appreciate all the
silly sleuthing and absurd details, and older readers—including parents
who come along for the ride—will find a satisfying layer of more
sophisticated humor.”
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School Library Journal