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My life as a potato / by Arianne Costner ; illustrated by James Lancett.
"When Ben Hardy is forced to become the school's mascot, Steve the Spud, he wants to keep the embarrassing gig a secret at all costs"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593118665
- ISBN: 0593118669
- ISBN: 9780593118672
- ISBN: 0593118677
- Physical Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 640L Lexile. Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 87 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 7.0 510433. |
| Awards Note: | Nominee: Young Hoosier Book Award, 2022-2023: Middle grades (6-8) Nominee: Rebel Reader/Bear Reader Award, 2022-2023: Middle grades (6-8) |
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| Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
Available copies
- 48 of 50 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 50 total copies.
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| Akron Carnegie PL - Akron | JUV FIC COS (Text) | 75253000065639 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Coatesville-Clay Twp PL - Coatesville | JF 5-6 COSTNER (Text) | 78321000035986 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Colfax-Perry Twp PL | YA FIC COS (Text)
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| Franklin Co PL Dist. - Brookville PL | T REA COS (Text) | 38217000777751 | Tween | Available | - |
| Franklin Co PL Dist. - Laurel PL | JFIC COS REA (Text) | 36241000497477 | Juvenile Realistic Fiction | Available | - |
| Fulton Co PL - Aubbee Library (Leiters Ford) | J COS (Text) | 33187004915852 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Fulton Co PL - Fulton Library | J COS (Text) | 33187004915860 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | J COS (Text) | 33187004996993 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Garrett PL - Garrett | JCH COS (Text) | 30010170912631 | Juvenile Chapter Book | Available | - |
| Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg | J COSTNER (Text) | 32826014344261 | J Fiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Believing himself to be cursed by potatoes, Ben moves to a formidable potato-laden community in Idaho, where an accident leads him to become his schoolâs secret potato mascot. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
"When Ben Hardy is forced to become the school's mascot, Steve the Spud, he wants to keep the embarrassing gig a secret at all costs"-- - Random House, Inc.
For anyone who has ever felt like a potato in middle school, this hilarious story about a boy forced to become the dorkiest school mascot ever will have readers cheering!
"A grade A, spudtastic (not to mention FUNNY) debut. Arianne Costner sure knows middle school and middle schoolers!" --Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Ben Hardy believes he's cursed by potatoes. And now he's moved to Idaho, where the school's mascot is Steve the Spud! Yeah, this cannot be good.
After accidentally causing the mascot to sprain an ankle, Ben is sentenced to Spud duty for the final basketball games of the year. But if the other kids know he's the Spud, his plans for popularity are likely to be a big dud! Ben doesn't want to let the team down, so he lies to his friends to keep it a secret. No one will know it's him under the potato suit . . . right?
Life as a potato is all about not getting mashed! With laugh-out-loud illustrations throughout, hand to fans of James Patterson, Gordan Korman, Jeff Kinney, and Chris Grabenstein!
"A hilarious, relatable story for any kid who has ever felt out of place." --Stacy McAnulty, author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
