Parent problems
Overprotective moms. Embarrassing habits. Practical jokes. Dewey investigates what parents are doing and builds a plan to help.
BOOK 1 →PARENT & READER GUIDE • AGES 9–12
Middle grade books with problems worth solving.
Parents searching for popular middle grade books are usually looking for something more specific: a book their kid will actually want to read. Dewey Fairchild is a funny three-book middle grade series about a kid who opens a secret problem-solving business and takes on the people most likely to complicate a kid’s life: parents, teachers, and siblings.
THREE CASE FILES
Start with the problem closest to home.
Teacher problems
Middle school brings new teachers, school policies, assignments, campaigns, and a much bigger problem-solving territory.
BOOK 2 →
Sibling problems
Room invasions, pranks, annoying little brothers and sisters, and the realization that sibling problems sometimes need a different kind of solution.
BOOK 3 →WHAT KIND OF READER?
Follow the trail.
SIBLINGSBooks about siblings for kids
School is part of Dewey’s territory too. See books about school, teachers, and middle-grade classroom life.
RECEIPTS
The archive is unusually deep.
Reviews, library sightings, school visits, bookstore events, launch material, Wolfie, Clara, cookies, and years of filed evidence live in the Evidence Room. The first book was also selected by Kirkus Reviews among its best middle-grade school and friendship stories of 2017.