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Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Stolen Poodle & Other Mysteries
88 pp.
| Holt/Ottaviano |
June, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-1-62779-460-2$15.99
(4)
1-3
Illustrated by
Laurie Keller.
A theft of nurse's-office tongue depressors, the disappearance of jawbreakers from a candy store, and a missing poodle found binge-watching TV: three slight, predictable mysteries are unlikely to stump anyone but will appeal to kids' sense of the ridiculous. As seven-year-old "poet detective" Marty persistently talks in simple rhymes and the pages are profusely illustrated, the stories should be easy for new readers to decipher.