Synopses & Reviews
In their latest fast-paced adventure, Wild Willie and his fellow detectives, Lucy and Kyle, suspect that aliens have invaded their block! Mean, rotten Chuckie has stopped being a bully and is acting spacey and nice, and Kyles talking parrot is acting weird, too. Could extraterrestrials be controlling their minds? Its a perfect case for Scarface Detectives, the trios recently formed investigation agency. Using surveillance and interrogation techniques and all their best detective skills, the young sleuths hatch a scheme to solve this new mystery. With prompting from a Magic Eight Ball and advice from the editors of their favorite detective magazine, the friends put their plan into effect, with hilarious results. Eventually, the young detectives must face an even scarier possibility than alien invasionChuckie has brain fryout for Lucy!
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"chapter-book readers will relish figuring out what's up before the detectives do"
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"The cartoon characters...have surefire appeal and the story develops just enough to be exciting without being scary or threatening" School Library Journal
"chapter-book readers will relish figuring out what's up before the detectives do" Booklist, ALA
About the Author
Sue Truesdell has collaborated with Barbara M. Joosse on all the Wild Willie books and also on the picture book NUGGET AND DARLING. She has illustrated several picture books, among them NUGGET and DARLING by Barbara M. Joosse and THIS IS A HOSPITAL, NOT A ZOO! by Roberta Karim. She makes her home in Tenafly, New Jersey.Barbara M. Joosse is the author of many books for children, including the four previous Wild Willie books and the best-selling Mama, Do You Love Me? (Chronicle). She lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.