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—André Aciman, author of OUT OF EGYPT: A Memoir
—Rebecca Mead, author of MY LIFE IN MIDDLEMARCH
—Brooke Allen, critic and author
—Jay Parini, author of THE LAST STATION
Editorial Content for My Miserable Life
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Ben is miserable --- just ask him. He is in the fifth grade, where he was hoping things would be better. At first they are, but then things change when his old nemesis, Rocko, ends up in the same class as him.
“Author F. L. Block writes the book with such emotion that...you'll be rooting for [Ben] all the way to the end.”
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Ben Hunter has a miserable life --- M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E! His sister will only talk to him through text messages, his mom won't let him eat sugar or even go for a bike ride unchaperoned, and a bully at school steals all of his friends.
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Ben Hunter has a miserable life --- M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E! His sister will only talk to him through text messages, his mom won't let him eat sugar or even go for a bike ride unchaperoned, and a bully at school steals all of his friends.
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Ben Hunter has a miserable life --- M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E! His sister will only talk to him through text messages, his mom won't let him eat sugar or even go for a bike ride unchaperoned, and a bully at school steals all of his friends. Told in Ben's voice, through entries from his school journal with commentary from his teacher, this very funny and often poignant narrative chronicles an eventful year in the life of a thoughtful fourth grader.
Editorial Content for Five Times Revenge
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In an age old classic of unlikely friends coming together, Lindsay Eland perfectly envelops sensitive topics like bullying and unstable families into FIVE TIMES REVENGE, a quirky story of five eighth graders banding together to stop their evil principal and his bully of a son from ruining any more lives. Read More
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Adam is the prank mastermind. Perk is his best friend and the computer genius. Pearl is the prettiest girl in school --- and a violin prodigy. Ray looks like a big dumb jock, but he secretly wants to be an engineer. And Dutch is the often-bullied dork who is in tune with everyone’s feelings. The five of them couldn’t be more different. But there’s one thing they have in common: they are fed up with Hill Parmar, the school bully --- and his dad, their school principal who’s always turning a blind eye. When Hill finally steps over the line, the five unlikely schemers band together for a prank like their middle school has never seen.
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Adam is the prank mastermind. Perk is his best friend and the computer genius. Pearl is the prettiest girl in school --- and a violin prodigy. Ray looks like a big dumb jock, but he secretly wants to be an engineer. And Dutch is the often-bullied dork who is in tune with everyone’s feelings. The five of them couldn’t be more different. But there’s one thing they have in common: they are fed up with Hill Parmar, the school bully --- and his dad, their school principal who’s always turning a blind eye. When Hill finally steps over the line, the five unlikely schemers band together for a prank like their middle school has never seen.
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Five unlikely friends. Two bullies. One epic prank. Part The Breakfast Club and part The View from Saturday, this funny, heartwarming novel about friendship and standing up for yourself will appeal to fans of Chris Grabenstein and Jennifer L. Holm.
Adam is the prank mastermind. Perk is his best friend and the computer genius. Pearl is the prettiest girl in school --- and a violin prodigy. Ray looks like a big dumb jock, but he secretly wants to be an engineer. And Dutch is the often-bullied dork who is in tune with everyone’s feelings. The five of them couldn’t be more different. But there’s one thing they have in common: they are fed up with Hill Parmar, the school bully --- and his dad, their school principal who’s always turning a blind eye. When Hill finally steps over the line, the five unlikely schemers band together for a prank like their middle school has never seen. Lindsay Eland weaves the five alternate points-of-view together for an accessible and funny school story --- and a friendship story --- for every reader.
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Author Julie Eshbaugh takes readers back to the prehistoric days in IVORY AND BONE. Life at the foot of the Great Ice can be very dangerous, as Kol and his clan know all too well. Finding food itself can be incredibly difficult, not to mention protecting their other clan members. Therefore, when a clan from the south comes to pay them a visit, Kol is hesitant of them at first, especially the surly Mya. History between the two clans has not always been easy and Kol cannot help but keep his guard up. Read More
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Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe --- that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain...a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives. As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts.
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Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe --- that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain...a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives. As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts.
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Debut author Julie Eshbaugh’s sweeping prehistoric fantasy --- with allusions to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE --- will enthrall readers with high-stakes survival, blinding betrayal and star-crossed love.
Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe --- that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless --- and nearly grave --- mistake. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain...a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives.
As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this was a war that Mya or Lo --- Kol doesn’t know which --- had been planning all along.
With riveting action and illustrative prose that leaps from the page, newcomer Julie Eshbaugh will have readers mesmerized.
Audiobook available, narrated by Michael Curran-Dorsano.
