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The Real McCoys

Bursting with interactive illustrations on every page, Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr’s The Real McCoys delivers clever storytelling, laugh-out-loud humor, and heartwarming insight for young readers.

Bold, opinionated, and haplessly self-confident, Moxie McCoy is the world’s greatest fourth-grade detective. Her little brother Milton is quiet, cautious, and boring as a butter knife, but he’s a good listener. Together, they solve the school’s biggest mysteries, deducing clues with elementary ease.

“Swanson’s witty text is enhanced exponentially by Behr’s bold, original artwork to create a uniquely told whodunit with wide appeal…An exceptional book.”—Booklist (starred review on The Real McCoys)

  • The Real McCoys: Wonder Undercover
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    • The Real McCoys: Wonder Undercover

    • The Real McCoys (Volume 3)
      Matthew Swanson; illustrated by Robbi Behr
      Imprint

    • In the third book in the critically acclaimed middle-grade series about mystery-solving siblings, Moxie McCoy, fourth grade detective, goes undercover.

      Moxie joins the...

      • Available in:

      • Physical Book
      • eBook
  • The Real McCoys: Two's a Crowd
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    • The Real McCoys: Two's a Crowd

    • The Real McCoys (Volume 2)
      Matthew Swanson; illustrated by Robbi Behr
      Square Fish

    • The second book in the critically acclaimed, illustrated middle-grade series, The Real McCoys, in which a precocious detective solves mysteries with her super-smart little brother.

      • Available in:

      • Physical Book
      • eBook
  • The Real McCoys
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    • The Real McCoys

    • The Real McCoys (Volume 1)
      Matthew Swanson; illustrated by Robbi Behr
      Square Fish

    • The first book in an illustrated middle-grade series in which a precocious detective solves mysteries with her super-smart little brother.

      Her name’s Moxie. Moxie McCoy.

      • Available in:

      • Physical Book
      • eBook

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Matthew Swanson

Author/illustrator, husband/wife duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr spend all day, every day, making stuff together, including their debut trade picture book Babies Ruin Everything; picture book Everywhere, Wonder; and the middle grade series The Real McCoys. In addition to speaking and teaching on collaboration and creative entrepreneurship, raising three small children, and fishing commercially for sockeye salmon on the Alaskan tundra each summer, Matthew and Robbi run Bobbledy Books (an indie press offering picture books and music for kids) from the hayloft of their home/barn/studio on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Horace and May Photography

Matthew Swanson

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Robbi Behr

Author/illustrator, husband/wife duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr spend all day, every day, making stuff together, including their debut trade picture book Babies Ruin Everything, picture book Everywhere, Wonder, and middle grades series The Real McCoys. In addition to speaking and teaching on collaboration and creative entrepreneurship, raising three small children, and fishing commercially for sockeye salmon on the Alaskan tundra each summer, Matthew and Robbi run Bobbledy Books (an indie press offering picture books and music for kids) from the hayloft of their home/barn/studio on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Horace and May Photography

Robbi Behr

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