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How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied
Contributor(s): Keating, Jess (Author)
ISBN: 1402297556     ISBN-13: 9781402297557
Publisher: Sourcebooks Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $10.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Animals - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2014006806
Lexile Measure: 750
Series: My Life Is a Zoo
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Girl's Interest
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 170051
Reading Level: 5.1   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Age Level: 9 and up Grade Level: 4 to 7

From surviving middle school to feeling like a misfit, Ana Wright tackles it all in How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes are Untied. This heartwarming, coming of age story is the perfect summer reading book for middle school girls!

Ana Wright's social life is officially on the endangered list: she lives in a zoo (umm, elephant droppings!?), her best friend lives on the other side of the world, and the Sneerers are making junior high miserable. All Ana wants is to fade into the background.

Yeah, that's not going to happen.

Creature File for Ana Wright:
Species Name: Anaphyta Normalis
Kingdom: The Zoo, Junior High
Phylum: Girls Whose Best Friend Just Moved To New Zealand; Girls Who Are Forced To Live In A Zoo With Their Weirdo Parents And Twin Brother
Weight: Classified
Feeds On: Daydreams about Zackardia Perfecticus and wish cupcakes
Life Span: Soon to become extinct due to social awkwardness

A 2015 Georgia Children's Book Award Winner
A 2015 Children's Choices Reading List Title
A 2015 Red Maple Award Nominee

A fun-filled, pitch-perfect book...An amusing, highly readable book about the perils of being 12 in a snake-eat-snake world.--Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review

Contributor Bio(s): Keating, Jess: - As an author and zoologist, Jess Keating has tickled a shark, lost a staring contest against an octopus, and been a victim to the dreaded paper cut. She lives in Ontario, Canada, where she spends most of her time writing books for adventurous and funny kids. Her first fiction novel How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied received a Starred Review from Kirkus and has been nominated for a Red Maple award. Visit her online at jesskeating.com.