Finders Creepers Half Past Peculiar,..., Derek Fridolfs
Finders Creepers Half Past Peculiar,..., Derek Fridolfs
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Finders Creepers (Half Past Peculiar, Book 1)

Author: Derek Fridolfs

Narrator: Dan Bittner, Christopher Gebauer, Cassandra Morris, Marc Thompson, Cynthia Farrell

Unabridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

Meet the Fetch Twins and their menagerie of pets as they unlock a mysterious portal to limitless worlds in this one of a kind series from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel team of Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs.Twins Atticus and Esmeralda Fetch are the best pet finders in Thorns Hollow -- a town where people have a lot of pets, and those pets often get lost. But when a lost dog leads them to an old, Victorian house on the edge of town, the twins find their world turned upside down. This creepy house contains a portal that leads to a whole other world -- a world where mythical creatures like trolls, fairies, and dragons are real.The secrets this mythical world contains are bigger than these kids could ever imagine. Secrets that could threaten to destroy the world as we know it. Now, Minerva, Atticus, and yes, their canine companion will have to work together if they want to save our world, and the world beyond the portal!Using a mix of prose, artifacts, and comics, the Eisner Award-nominated and New York Times bestselling team of Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen creates a fantasy-based middle-grade series that's simultaneously eerie, very funny, and wondrously imaginative. With a mix of typeset pages, painted artifacts, and beautiful comics, pages this one of a kind novel is sure to spark the imaginations of readers everywhere.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Arundhati on April 12, 2021

Finders Creepers is beautiful and a touch creepy. The book follows the Fetch twins Esmeralda and Atticus who help in finding lost pets. They have rescued a variety of pets and helped them find their way back to their home except their own pet which they lost in their past. The Fetch twins are always......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 15, 2020

Finders Creepers (Half Past Peculiar, Book 1) 🐶 Derek Fridolphs (writer) and Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator) You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover...usually...but Half Past Peculiar has a beautifully creepy cover to match the mysterious tales inside of missing pets and a mysterious house owned by the Mo......more

Goodreads review by Brian on September 12, 2020

I normally like the work of these two creators, but this comes off as half baked and meandering. The front half of the book about pet rescue feels like a wildly different tone to the second half that injects fantasy into the plot. I was hoping for a solid series, but this is a misfire.......more

Goodreads review by Angie on April 17, 2023

3.5 I enjoyed this. It was interesting and fun, though I wish it hadn't ended on a cliff hanger. I think kids will love the mixed methods of story telling throughout the book.......more

Goodreads review by Elissa on October 14, 2020

Trying til hard to be quirky and I just didn’t feel like there was establishment of this world. Two stars for the interesting mashup of prose, postcards, graphic novel, etc.......more