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Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, 11-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise—Total Failure, Inc.—challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.

Definitely ten-year-old humor. Timmy Failure is a disaster at school, at friendship, at his job as a detective, but he doesn't even know it. His sidekick is a polar bear, and his mom is trying her best to guide her clueless son through life. Lots of speeding vehicles and Nate-the-Great-ish detective work and silly humor that kids will probably just love.

I read this last week in my attempt to hurry up and read a whole bunch of chapter books before the summer so that I can spiffy up my RA. I feel I must begin with a disclaimer: I really, really dislike the Wimpy Kid books. Timmy Failure is written in a similar style (heavy on illustrations). The difference? Timmy Failure is laugh out loud hysterical. I read it in my living room and everyone kept telling me to shush because I was laughing so hard they couldn't hear the TV.
Timmy and his business partner a polar bear, Total run Total Failure Detective Agency. Timmy happens to be one of the worst detectives I have ever read. The support characters are also funny. What I loved was the side story of Timmy's mom, who is single, and her new love interest.
Great read, highly recommended and now I am armed with a title for kids who have already finished the Wimpy Kid and Big Nate series.