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There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
By (Author) Louis Sachar
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf
15th October 2004
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Winner of Arizona Young Readers Award 1991
Paperback
224
Width 133mm, Height 191mm, Spine 13mm
153g
The beloved bestseller from Newbery Medalist and National Book Award winner Louis Sachar (Holes), with a brand-new cover!
Give me a dollar or Ill spit on you.
Thats Bradley Chalkers for you. Hes the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls, and the teachers say he has serious behavior problems. No one likes himexcept Carla, the new school counselor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could change, if only he werent afraid to try.
But when you feel like the most hated kid in the whole school, believing in yourself can be the hardest thing in the world. . . .
"A humorous and immensely appealing story...Readers are likely to come away with the sense that they've been rooting for themselves too"--Kirkus.
Newbery Award winner Louis Sachar is the author of Dogs Dont Tell Jokes, The Boy Who Lost His Face, and the Marvin Redpost books.
Louis Sachars book Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, and an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture.