The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
Brixton Brothers, Book 1

I've always loved (and slightly laughed at) children's detective novels, so this book was a real treat! It celebrated the cliche in a preposterous, humorous way while disproving some of the old flex-your-muscles-when-you're-tied-up tricks in the process. ;) The main character has some crazy adventur......more

An experimental light read that I took up searching for something similar to Hardy boys. It's that kind of YA mystery where juvenile sleuths who've never been behind the wheel go about honking and tonking in stolen police cars, and the police go about chasing them in commandeered bicycles painted bl......more

Omigosh, I love this book. It's an homage to the Hardy Boys and a send-up at the same time. My fellow school librarians should read this first book in the series if for no other reason than to savor the notion of librarians as part of an elite force of secret agents. For students looking for humor w......more

Even though the plot is quite ridiculous, I still enjoyed the novel. I love how it constantly uses references and information from The Bailey Brothers and points out how different novel version of detective work is from the real-life detective work. Only if the plot was a bit more realistic! Another......more

In all the days of looking up Mac Barnett and Adam Rex books from the library, I always skimmed past these books. They weren't picture books (at least in the traditional sense), which is what I have come to love from these two. And they look like bad Hardy Boys knock-offs. Turns out, that's what they a......more