The Book You're Not Supposed to Have
by Stephan Pastis • Book 5 of the Timmy Failure Series
Banishment from his life's calling can't keep a comically overconfident detective... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Humor
- Mystery
- Graphic Novel
Year Published 2016
Word Count 17,600
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 610L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 185220
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
- Detectives--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | General
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Humorous Stories
- Schools--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
- Mothers and sons--Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and sons--Fiction
- Schools
- Mothers and sons
- JUVENILE FICTION--Comics & Graphic Novels--General
- Illustrated children's books
- Polar bears--Fiction
- Mystery and detective stories
- Mother-son relationship--Fiction
- Schools--Juvenile fiction
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