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Timmy Failure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report is the key to everything, including a good grade. It's dirty business. It's best you know nothing. But one thing is for sure that Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Teased for his youth and diminutive stature, twelve-year-old Fletcher Moon is a fully-licensed detective who, while investigating his first case, is framed for arson and must team up with his prime suspect to clear his name and find the real criminal.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his memoirs are being turned into a movie, Timmy must deal with a buffoonish movie director, while his polar bear business partner Total wants to be reunited with his family and Timmy's father is back in town working at a bar.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My name is Failure. Timmy Failure. I am the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. The book you are holding is a historical record of my life as a detective. It has been rigorously fact-checked. All the drawings in here are by me. I tried to get my business partner to do the illustrations, but they were not good. This book, and my life, are the inspiration for a new movie, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Now with a brand-new look, this is an edition that collectors won't want to miss! When the Hardy boys eagerly agree to assist their friend Jack Dodd and his father in locating a family treasure, the two young detectives are unaware of the baffling complications that will arise. The only clue to the long-lost treasure is a cryptic message written by a Pilgrim ancestor. But when Mr. Dodd and Jack are accused of stealing cars and then mysteriously disappear,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Morally ambiguous P. I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden -- in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and bestselling crime novelist. Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
"While his mother and doorman Dave celebrate their wedding, Timmy visits Florida where he forges a new partnership with Dave's nephew, Emilio, when a surprise newcomer shows up and he encounters a thieving six-toed cat."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While bumbling PI Percival Smidgely tries to find missing pig Mercy Watson, a trio of clever neighborhood sleuths follow a trail of hoof prints--and a delicious aroma--to recover their porcine wonder, in this uproariously funny, extra-special series finale"--WorldCat.
12) Zero to hero
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Timmy Failure is not just any detective--he is the greatest detective in his town, perhaps the nation. He is so famous that there have been seven books written about his life. Plus a movie. And so he has agreed to provide the world with his extraordinary origin story, as dictated to his biographer and best friend, Charles 'Rollo' Tookus. New York Times best-selling author Stephan Pastis is back with the hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would...
14) The candy mafia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
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
Ivy + Bean volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve"--WorldCat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Description
"On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost treasure. She's excited to finally meet her arriving relatives--until...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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...
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