Parent problems
Overprotection, embarrassing habits, family rules, practical jokes, and a secret problem-solving office that begins with other kids' parents before turning toward Dewey's own family.
BOOK 1 →PARENT & READER GUIDE • AGES 9–12
Middle grade books with problems worth solving.
Parents searching for 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, research, student campaigns, and a much bigger problem-solving territory.
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Sibling problems
Attention, privacy, teasing, retaliation, electronics, social media, and the discovery that the object siblings fight over may not be the real problem.
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 complete Book 3 source pass now adds a structured 256-page sibling archive and case-by-case guide.