InvestiGators: Case Files by John Patrick Green, Steve Behling

A special interactive installment of InvestiGators, a bestselling early reader series about a super spy alligator duo that has sold more than 3 million books! Special agents Mango and Brash are back again, and this time they’ll be asking their readers for help in cracking the case! The gators have been given a brand new add-on for their V.E.S.T.s to help with gathering evidence and making sense of clues – the G.R.I.D. (Gator Reasoning, Inquiry, Deduction) – and with that powerful tool in hand, kids can follow along as they solve six brand-new mysteries! Featuring plenty of familiar faces from investigations past, as well as a few brand new suspects, Mango and Brash and YOU (the reader) will get to the bottom of cases big and small!

Steve Behling is passionate about telling stories for kids. He has written books, comics, articles, puzzles, games and more for Disney, Random House, Little Brown Books For Young Readers, HarperCollins, Marvel, Hasbro, Mattel, and DreamWorks, to name a few. He’s also the former comics editor for Disney Adventures magazine. Some of his works include the original middle-grade novels Avengers: Endgame: The Pirate Angel, the Talking Tree, and Captain Rabbit (Marvel Press, 2019), Onward: The Search For the Phoenix Gem(Disney Press, 2020), and the Agent Stitch series (Disney Press). His own original series, The Monstrous Adventures of Mummy Man and Waffles! arrives from HarperCollins in August 2024. He’s also the author of Spidey and His Amazing Friends: Team Spidey Does it All!, a collection of first-reader comics. Steve lives in a top-secret subterranean lair with his wife, two human children, and three-legged wonder beagle, Loomis. [source](https://thatstevebehling.com/about)