Time Flies: Down to the Last Minute (Private I)

by Tara Lazar (Author) Ross MacDonald (Illustrator)

Time Flies: Down to the Last Minute (Private I)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Private I

The team behind 7 Ate 9 and The Upper Case: Trouble in Capital City is back with another installment of their pun-filled detective noir Private I series. This time, Private I is in a race to find all the missing clocks in town!

In the colorful and letter-filled Capital City, there's never a moment's rest for Private I, the city's best investigator. Trouble seems to always have a way of finding him--trouble with a capital T. On this particular day, T tells Private I that his watch is missing. And T isn't alone--the citizens of Capital City have lost track of timepieces all over town! Can Private I catch the perp and make up for lost time before it's too late?

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Time flies when you’re having fun reading this terrifically silly spoof.
Tara Lazar
Tara Lazar finds it fabulous to be foolish about felines. She opened the door to a cat mewling, offered the stray a can of tuna, and the cat never left. She is the author of 7 Ate 9, The Monstore, Bloop and more. You can find them all--Tara, her husband, two daughters and a black cat--somewhere in New Jersey. Flat Cat is her 13th book. You can visit Tara Lazar online at taralazar.com.

Pete Oswald is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of The Smart Cookie; The Couch Potato; The Cool Bean; The Good Egg; and The Bad Seed, all written by Jory John. Pete's authorial debut, Hike, was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. He is also the illustrator of Sleepy Sheepy, written by Lucy Ruth Cummins, and the indie bestsellers The Attack of the Underwear Dragon and The Return of the Underwear Dragon, written by Scott Roth­man. In addition to making picture books, he works on numerous highly success­ful animated franchises as a character designer, concept artist, and production designer. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three sons. You can visit Pete Oswald online at PeteOswald.com.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780759554924
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date
April 26, 2022
Series
Private I
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
JUV009080 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Words
Library of Congress categories
Alphabet
Stealing
Private investigators
Clocks and watches

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