InvestiGators: Take the Plunge (Book 2), by John Patrick Green

(Hardback, 208 pages, first published in 2020)

Sewer-spelunking secret agents Mango and Brash make a big splash in this hilarious new mystery in John Patrick Green's full-color, laugh-out-loud graphic novel series! Three million readers can’t be wrong – InvestiGators: Take the Plunge is a perfect comic for kid readers to dive into!

In their next big adventure, S.U.I.T. headquarters is under attack, and Mango and Brash are going undercover and underground disguised as city sewer workers to unclog a sticky situation. But when their search for the criminal Crackerdile backfires, the toilets they travel through get blocked and the InvestiGators take the blame for it!

Can Mango and Brash restore their good name and put the real culprit behind bars before the whole city is in deep water?

Cautions: Book 2 in the InvestiGators series has a little bit more potty humor than book 1 (specifically: one subplot about a main character who doesn't have access to a bathroom but really needs to visit one, and another brief scene about a minor character who needs to use the restroom. The latter is delivered via puns/figurative language/funny cultural reference that will go over kids' heads, but still not our style). There is one instance of "get ya butt in here!" language. One character is presumed to be a "robot ghost" but turns out to be a "robot mist." As a standalone book, Storyglory may have passed this one up, but we enjoyed Book 1 in the series so much, and later books in the series, that we're giving this one the green light.

Recommended Age: 6-10