The Book You're Not Supposed to Have (Timmy Failure Series #5)

by Stephan Pastis, Stephan Pastis (Illustrator)

Overview

Banishment from his life’s calling can’t keep a comically overconfident detective down in the latest episode by New York Times bestseller Stephan Pastis.

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 mom really marry Doorman Dave?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536209082
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Series:	Timmy Failure Series , #5
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	173,181
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Stephan Pastis is the creator of the New York Times bestseller Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made and its four sequels, as well as the acclaimed comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He lives in northern California.

Editorial Reviews

Cartoonist Pastis continues his heavily illustrated bestselling series with a fifth mystery that basically doesn't exist. Several chapter titles will be funny only to adults reading along, but the ample cartoons and clueless timfoolery will entertain all and sundry. Wittier than the Wimpy Kid and with a movie in the offing, the series can only gain fans.
—Kirkus Reviews

Timmy’s behavior has never been willfully destructive, but in this case, he might be accused of trying to sabotage the wedding, or at least simply continuing to use detection as a means to impose his will on an often confounding world. Fans of this continually off-the-wall series can make the call.
—Booklist Online

Students will love the absurdity of Timmy and question his thought process while enjoying the humorous illustrations throughout the pages. Parents and teachers will enjoy the humor and comedic timing that Pastis is known for, not to mention the amount of high level vocabulary words he works in flawlessly. These titles won't stay on the shelves long!
—School Library Connection

From the Publisher

2016-06-22
Who could ban the world's greatest detective from detecting? In a word: mom. After the fiasco that was his last case (and Timmy Failure may not admit it, but which of his cases wasn't a fiasco?), his mother banned him from running his detective business...at least until the end of the school year. Thanks to a teacher's strike, the school year gets extended, but Timmy has too many important cases (not really) to wait. He sets up shop in the garden-shed section of the local Home Despot, and while attempting to survive piano lessons, orthodontist visits, his mother's wedding plans, and possibly homicidal cousins, he secretly continues to detect (even though his polar-bear assistant is too distracted by the $1 hot dogs sold nearby to do any assisting). When best friend Rollo Tookus goes missing, Timmy is on the case, hiring tangerine-scented Molly Moskins to help out. Will he find Rollo? Will Mom marry Doorman Dave? Will Timmy realize his detection skills rival those of the nearest rosebush? Cartoonist Pastis continues his heavily illustrated bestselling series with a fifth mystery that basically doesn't exist. Several chapter titles will be funny only to adults reading along, but the ample cartoons and clueless timfoolery will entertain all and sundry. Wittier than the Wimpy Kid and with a movie in the offing, the series can only gain fans. (Graphic/mystery hybrid. 7-12)

Kirkus Reviews