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Timmy Failure

Stephan Pastis

20134 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2013
first published
  • 2013Walker · 294 pages · ENGISBN 9781406339819
  • 2013Candlewick Press · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780763687946
  • 2015Candlewick Press · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780763669270
  • 2016Candlewick Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780763691066
  • 2016Candlewick Press · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780763680145
  • 2020Disney Press · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781368065115
  • 2019Candlewick · 4 pagesISBN 9781536209112
  • 2019Walker Books · 288 pagesISBN 9781406387230

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.

How it feels

AtmosphereWhimsical
HumourComic

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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Written forMiddle grade

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