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Mistakes Were Made (Timmy Failure, Book 1)

Author: Pastis, Stephan

Follett Number: 0996AS0
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Candlewick Press, c2013, p2015
Format: 294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-6927-0
ISBN-10: 0-7636-6927-X
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Subjects:
Bears Fiction
Detective and Mystery Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Humorous Fiction
Polar Bear Fiction
Private Investigators Fiction
May include sheet of temporary tattoos. Meet Timmy Failure, the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. And his lazy sidekick, Total, a 1,500-pound polar bear.

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"An endearingly pathetic antihero with delusions of greatness. . . . Seldom has failure been so likable -- or so funny." -- The Wall Street Journal 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, and what you have is Total Failure, Inc. From the offbeat creator of Pearls Before Swine comes an endearingly bumbling hero in a hilarious caper accompanied by a whodunit twist. With perfectly paced visual humor, Stephan Pastis gets readers 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 that truly stands apart from the pack.

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