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Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My...

Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My...

Huge Pain in My...

by Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/09/2015

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Dear Mr. Franklin,

First of all, let me just say that this Assignment is Stupid. You are Dead. Why am I writing a letter to Some dead guy I've never even met?

This is the start to a most unlikely pen pal relationship between thirteen-year-old Franklin Isaac Saturday (Ike) and Benjamin Franklin. Before the fateful extra credit assignment that started it all, Ike's life was pretty normal. He was avoiding the popularity contests of middle school, crushing hard on Clare Wanzandae and trying not roll his eyes at his stepfather, Dirk-the-Jerk's lame jokes.

But all that changes when, in a successful effort to make Claire Wanzandae laugh, Ike mails his homework assignment to Ben Franklin and he writes back. Soon, things go awry. After Ike has an embarrassing moment of epic proportions in front of Claire involving a playground, non-alcoholic beer, and a lot of kettle corn, Ike decides he needs to find a way to win Claire back. With some help from his new friend, B-Fizzle, can Ike get the girl and make his mark in history?

ISBN:
9781484713044
9781484713044
Category:
School stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-09-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hyperion Books for Children
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
219.07x146.05x19.05mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Adam Mansbach

Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), Angry Black White Boy, Rage is Back and The Dead Run. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Believer, Granta, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. Mansbach's 2011 picture book Go the F**k to Sleep was an international bestseller and one of the most talked-about books of the decade. A viral sensation, it has been published in forty languages.

Alan Zweibel

Alan Zweibel is an original Saturday Night Live writer who has won multiple Emmy and Writers Guild of America awards for his work in televi-ion. He also collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning Broadway play 700 Sundays and won the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his novel The Other Shulman.

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