Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries fans will want to give the bestselling, hilarious and highly-rated Timmy Failure series a try.
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $5.22)
Meet “detective” Timmy Failure, star of the kids’ comedy of the year. Created by New York Times best-selling cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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 visual 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 comics-inspired story (the first in a new series) that truly stands apart from the pack.
Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $6.09)
The clueless, comically self-confident kid detective returns in a sequel to the New York Times bestseller Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.
He doesn’t like to pull rank. To reveal that he’s this guy: Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation. But he is. And he’s about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.
It’s his ticket to bringing home a $500 prize, which is guaranteed to set him up for life.
But someone is clearly trying to game the system. Hoodwink. Con. Defraud. So it’s up to Timmy Failure, with the dubious help of Total, his lazy polar-bear partner, and his unlikely new ally, eccentric Great-Aunt Colander, to find a way to avenge these shenanigans.
Defeat this injustice. If he can only get his entry form in on time.
Timmy Failure: We Meet Again (5/5 stars, currently priced at $7.59)
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 are 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—Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
Timmy Failure: Sanitized For Your Protection (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $8.68)
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 are 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—Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
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