Pat Schmatz
Pat Schmatz is the author of five novels for teens. Lizard Radio (Candlewick 2015) will be available in September of 2015. Bluefish (Candlewick 2011) won the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship while still a work in progress. It was awarded Bank Street College of Education's 2012...
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Pat Schmatz is the author of five novels for teens. Lizard Radio (Candlewick 2015) will be available in September of 2015. Bluefish (Candlewick 2011) won the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship while still a work in progress. It was awarded Bank Street College of Education's 2012 Josette Frank Award for fiction and the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the midwest. It is a Junior Library Guild Selection, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and winner of the Wisconsin Library Association's Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award. Other novels are Mousetraps (Carolrhoda 2008), Circle the Truth (Carolrhoda 2007) and Mrs. Estronsky and the UFO (Little Blue Works 2001).
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Travis is missing his old home in the country, and he’s missing his old hound, Rosco. Now there’s just the cramped place he shares with his well-meaning but alcoholic grandpa, a new school, and the dreaded routine of passing when he’s called on to read out loud. But that’s before Travis meets Mr. Mc...
The Summer Prince meets 1984 in this unique near-future novelA wholly unique story told from the point of view of in-between Kivali - who everyone calls Lizard. In a near future that is eerily different from our own world, Kivali is sent to CropCamp for the summer. There she will learn to follow all...
It took a few chapters to get drawn into this story, but I'm glad I stuck with it. Great characters, great story.
Travis lost his home and his dog, not in that order, within weeks. His Grandpa sobered up, said they needed a change, and moved them away from the swamp they'd lived in forever, and all that, right after Rosco, the hound dog who was Travis's very best friend in the world, went missing.Travis starts...
This was a great frienship, middle school book.I totally enjoyed it! Not everything in this world is peachy sweet and this book shows a little of the other side and how friendship can make life a bit better!
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