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InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse

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InvestiGators is a favourite series for students (and my own kids!), so it's great to see the spin off, Agents of SUIT, growing stronger with this Badger edition. It's a fun read full of humour, adventure, twists and turns. Great for fans of Dog Man, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Bad Guys, or CatStronauts.

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My students LOVE this series, so I had to jump on and grab the next installment so I could be ahead of them. A perfect story to help establish confidence in young readers, what with the artwork, ease of reading content, and the silly hijinks that happen in the story. The poor badgers are in trouble, yet still come out on top! John Patrick Green has done it again and will continue to keep my students engaged in fun reading, especially with the graphics! Thanks for the opportunity to review!

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Yet again another winner in my son's opinion. He adores this series, and InvestiGators! If your kid has read Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or Captain Underpants and you need something else for them: check these books out!

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Readers will love the latest InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T: From Badger to Worse! Between the little details referring to previous shenanigans, to the hilarious characters, fans will have some laugh-out-loud moments indeed.

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Can't wait to recommend it to everyone! Perfect for fans of Investigators and The Bad Guys. Humor, wordplay, and action - children will love it!

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This was such a cute chapter book and great fun read. It was really fun to get to read about the adventures of B-team and there was so many fun puns.

Thanks to First Second and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.

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A huge thanks to First Second for accepting my NetGalley request to read and review this title. You've made my kids think I'm untouchably cool.

My little boy gave this 10/10, while my little girl gave it 1000/10. Unfortunately Goodreads only goes up to 5 stars, but we would have awarded more if possible!
A great addition to the Agents of S.U.I.T. universe. I loved getting to see more from Bongo and Marsha, who have only ever featured as background characters in the InvestiGators series. It was an unexpected surprise that the storyline from the first Agents of S.U.I.T. book continued in this one, and it certainly kept us turning the pages until the very end. Bring on book #3.

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Thank you for NetGalley, John Patrick Green, and First Second publisher for a chance to read this advanced reader copy.

My son is the biggest fan of this series and he was ecstatic to see that we had the opportunity to read it in advance. We thoroughly enjoyed this title and have already preordered our copy. As always, this book was again written cleverly and there were plenty of funny puns included. My son was a big sad he has to way until February to get these in his hands.

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THIS. BOOK. IS. LIFE.
Just like all the previous books by J.P. Green, this is absolutely the best!
This is silly, it is weird, it is hilarious, it is filled with so many laugh-out-loud and snort-out-loud moments! It reads just like all the previous InvestiGators graphic novels, it is entertaining and fast-paced, it is a real page-turner that will keep any kid glued to the pages. Drawings are consistent with the previous books, text goes hand in hand also, it is perfect. I’m absolutely sure every elementary school and middle grade age kid who gets this book will enjoy it. Also, I have a special love for books that most definitely will work as a “gateway thing” to make kids interested in reading. Give this to ANY kid who says they aren’t a fan of books, make sure they are bored enough to pick up the book and look inside it, and boom, you have a kid who wants to read more. I have seen this happen to so many kids back when I was working at school 20 years ago – and back then there was not this huge abundance of books like this one, it was really hard to find “gateway thing” books. It makes me so, so happy to see that books like this are being created, printed, sold, made available to young readers and libraries.
One more thing I’d like to point out that makes InvestiGators books good and useful is the quirky language, the creative use of language and puns, the word play there. I’m sure that also is something that gets kids hooked on reading those books, and makes them interested in exploring their own use of language.

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Thank you for the chance to read this advance copy. I am always happy to be back in the world of the InvestiGators, this time having an adventure with the B-team. This book is clever, funny and has so many good puns. This is one of my favorite graphic novel series. I've already got this one preordered.

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The book definitely has good artwork and story. The target audience is children, and for them this is an excellent way to learn word play and puns. The book has tons of them, and which is the only source of humor. So if kids who don't pay attention to such details, they'll be turning the pages fast. There are some portions of the plot that repeat at every turn, such as Badgers will make more mistakes than progress on any given case. These mistakes repeat, with no improvement either in worsening those same mistakes or reduce the number at least! Eventually it makes readers lose interest easily.

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This is such a fun addition to the series! I can't wait to give this to the kids in my library; they love this series!

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My son has been a huge fan of the InvestiGators series, and we had read the prior Agents of S.U.I.T. book. I was so excited to read this with him. This book followed the "B Team" of Badgers Marsha and Bongo. It took them to a tropical island where people's electronics kept disappearing. Marsha and Bongo worked to solve the case. My son is 7 years old and loved this book! It was entertaining for me as well. I enjoy reading these with him every night before he goes to bed. This is a great book and series for anyone who has kids who enjoy graphic novels. It was simple enough for him to follow, but complex enough of a story for him to stay engaged. I would highly recommend it to any of my followers who have children. I look forward to reading any future InvestiGators or Agents of S.U.I.T. stories with my son!

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Another pun filled laugh from John Patrick Green and co! My son and I enjoyed the play on the merchandise and were amused throughout. I prefer the Gators more but this was still a cute story!

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Excellent continuation of this InvestiGators spin off! My seven-year-old read it in one sitting, he loved the humor and the story, and has already read it again. We'll be getting a physical copy for his InvestiGators collection as soon as it is released in February, as he always comes back to the series.

Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to read this ARC from NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review. Wish me luck explaining to my son that it will be a longggg time until the next book since he got to read this one months before it was out. Ha!

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While not quite as fun or funny as the main Investigators series, this side series is still definitely worth checking out. Full of terrible puns and silly situations, kids will eat it up just as surely as they do any of the books in the series.

I would like to thank the author, publisher, and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

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My daughter loves the InvestiGators series and we liked the first in this new spinoff series as well. She's only 5 1/2 years old but can read these mostly independently. This one has some tricky and harder words and phrases so I'm glad we read it together. She really enjoyed the story and was laughing a lot. I thought it was kind of all over the place but still entertaining. We're already looking forward to the next one in the series!

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I will be honest of all the Investigators, or Agents of Suit books that I have read this one was my least favorite so far. Not that it is still not good, it just fell flat in comparison to some of the previous books. I will say I am excited to see what is happening back in the field though. That will be an interesting story. Bongo and Marsha just as agents were okay, they were not super funny, instead they were clumsy and absent minded. I feel like the characters around them carried the story more then they did at times.
Thank you so much to First Second Books and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy of this title.

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I thought this book was really good. Although, I wish they would show what happened to Monocle in an Investigators book. If you’re a fan of this series you will love this book.

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Sons review: I loved it. It was good. It was funny. I loved Bongo and Marsha. My favorite part was the ginormous rocket. 5 stars!

Moms Review: The second book in the series built well off the plot of the first book while introducing new characters Bongo and Marsha. It was fast paced, funny, and full of action. I am really intrigued by the b-plot where we got to check in with Monocle at the farm base. I also didn't expect that villain in the main plot. Overall I felt more interested and engaged in this book than the first one, so solid 5 stars.

Overall this series has been one my kids happily read and reread. The characters are fun, the humor on point (though sometimes a little too punny for mom) and the story pulls you in on a wild ride.

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