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96 pp.
| Holt |
April, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8050-8242-5$16.95
|
PaperISBN 978-0-8050-8786-4$9.95
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1-3Joey Fly, Private Eye series.
Illustrated by
Neil Numberman.
In this graphic novel comic-drama, Joey Fly and his young assistant Sammy the scorpion solve the mystery of a missing pencil box and save a friendship gone wrong. Readers learn some tricks of the detective trade along with often-clumsy Sammy in this mock-noir satire of life in "the bug city." Sepia and blue-tinted illustrations feature exaggerated insect caricatures, ratcheting up the humor.