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Comedy

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

2013304 pagesComedy
Mood
Whimsical, Wry
Protagonist
Timmy Failure, the supremely confident eleven-year-old.
Parental Rating
PG
Pace
Fast

Themes & atmosphere

Common questions

What you might want to know about Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.

Eleven-year-old Timmy Failure runs the greatest detective agency in town, Total Failure, Inc., out of his bedroom, with a fifteen-hundred-pound polar bear named Total as his business partner. The case of Mrs.

Stephan Pastis has written seven Timmy Failure books. The series is complete.

Timmy Failure is middle grade, recommended for readers 7 to 11. The illustrated chapter-book format and absurdist detective humor make it especially popular with reluctant readers.

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made was written by Stephan Pastis, published in 2013 by Candlewick.

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is 304 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.

At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is a standalone novel by Stephan Pastis, not part of a series.

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.

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