Bruce Hale, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (115p) ISBN 978-0-15-216700-4
Also taking to the spotlight is the familiar fourth-grade gumshoe in Bruce Hale's Give My Regrets to Broadway. In this pun-laden installment in the Chet Gecko mysteries, someone is trying to sabotage the Emerson Hickey Elementary school play, ...
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Bruce Hale, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-216706-6
Mysteries of a lighter nature are illuminated in Bruce Hale's The Malted Falcon, the 10th entry from the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye. This time the gecko gumshoe and his mockingbird partner, Natalie Attired, track down a winning
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Bruce Hale, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-216718-9
Another Chet Gecko mystery by Bruce Hale unfolds in Trouble Is My Beeswax. A test-cheating ring is operating at Emerson Hicky Elementary, and Chet's pal Shirley Chameleon is being framed as the chief operator. Luckily, Chet and his mockingbird...
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Bruce Hale, Author Harcourt Paperbacks $14.85 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-205406-9
Three tales of elementary school noir combine in Chet Gecko's Big Box of Mystery, which includes paperback editions of the first three in the series: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse; The Mystery of Mr. Nice; and Farewell, My Lunchbag by Bruce Hale. Of
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Bruce Hale. Scholastic, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-545-66537-7
Classic fairy tale characters get entertaining modern updates in Hale’s (the Chet Gecko Mysteries) revisionist whodunit. When the homes of the construction company–owning Three Little Pigs are vandalized, all eyes turn to the natural suspect: the...
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Dave Garbot. Harper, $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-202262-2
Santa’s toys are missing, and this activity book prompts readers to discover the culprit by locating visual clues on busy digital spreads: “As Santa searches the stables, he finds something the thief must have dropped. Can you spot Santa and his...
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Steve Breen. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3585-9
Hale (Clark the Shark) and Breen (Pug and Doug) have such a similar go-broad-or-go-home comic aesthetic that it’s surprising they haven’t crossed collaborative paths before. Together, they come up with a hybrid of Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and The...
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Dave Garbot. Harper, $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-223706-4
Hale and Garbot follow Santa on the Loose! and Easter Bunny on the Loose! with another search-and-find holiday outing. This time, several monsters have lost their Halloween candy, and it’s up to Frankenstein’s monster to solve the mystery. Garbot...
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Bruce Hale, Author, Bruce Hale, Illustrator . Harcourt $4.95 (, $4.95 each ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-15-202515-1
. Fourth-grade gumshoe Chet Gecko and his smart sidekick, Natalie Attired, search for a missing chameleon in the first whodunit, and follow up their suspicions that the principal is up to something in the second. PW
said, "Beginning readers...
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Bruce Hale, Author, Bruce Hale, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-202275-4
In the third adventure of the reptilian gumshoe, Farewell, My Lunchbag by Bruce Hale, a follow-up to The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse and The Mystery of Mr. Nice, Chet Gecko searches out a food thief in the cafeteria (school lunches must be ...
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Bruce Hale, Author, Bruce Hale, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $14 (112p) ISBN 978-0-15-202281-5
Hale (How the Gecko Lost His Tail) launches a mild new mystery series starring fourth-grade gumshoe Chet Gecko, who searches for a missing chameleon named Billy. ""Some cases start rough, some cases start easy. This one started with a dame. (That's...
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Guy Francis. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-237452-3
Clark the Shark’s personality is as big as ever in his fifth picture book, which focuses on the Christmas preparations at Theodore Roosterfish Elementary. The eyes of Clark’s aquatic classmates widen with alarm as he carols loudly and throws his...
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Guy Francis. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-219226-4
Clark’s intentions are good, but his voracious enthusiasm for school (where he’s the only shark pupil among smaller sea creatures) results in some awkward moments. “Munch your own lunch,” says his best friend, Joey Mackerel. “You are playing rough,...
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Bruce Hale, Author, Shane Hillman, Illustrator , illus. by Shane Hillman. HarperCollins $15.99 (165p) ISBN 978-0-06-085124-8
The author of the Chet Gecko mysteries launches a new series, billed as half comic/half novel—Hugo Cabret
, however, this is not, nor, for that matter, is it Captain Underpants. A trio of kids discovers Underwhere, which, as narrator Zeke...
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Bruce Hale, Author, Jon Cryer, Read by Imagination Studio $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-6187-3
Comic actor Jon Cryer pays homage to classic movies with his hilarious take on fourth-grade lizard detective Chet Gecko in Chet Gecko Private Eye: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse and The Mystery of Mr. Nice by Bruce Hale. (May)
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Edited by Chris Grabenstein. HarperCollins, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-288420-6
Multiple Edgar Award winners and nominees are among the 20 contributors to this engaging anthology of snappily paced capers entailing codes, ciphers, and math and science puzzles. Several gumshoes featured here have demonstrated their sleuthing...
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Bruce Hale. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-338-64599-6
The Bad News Bears meet the Boy Scouts in Hale’s (Switched) snarky, family-centric adventure novel. Aspiring cartoonist and animator Cooper “Coop” McCall is still coming to terms with his parents’ divorce two years back, but he’s looking forward to...
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Stephanie Laberis. HarperCollins, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-284717-1
“Neither snow, nor ice, nor weather not so nice can stop Peppermint Post.” That’s Santa’s glowing assessment of the busiest post office in the world, where all his mail is processed by polar bear Postmaster Buck Growlersson and his penguin crew....
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Bruce Hale, illus. by Guy Francis. HarperCollins, $10.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-298363-3
The tech-savvy elven team behind the famous red suit explains the mechanics of how Santa delivers presents in one night. From the sheer number of gifts (“They could stretch three times around Earth”) and resulting weight (“three Empire State...
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