My near-death adventures (99% true!) / Alison DeCamp.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385390440 (hardback)
- 0385390459 (glb)
- 0385390467 (ebook)
- 9780385390446 (hardback)
- 9780385390453 (glb)
- 9780385390460 (ebook)
- My near-death adventures (ninety-nine percent true!)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | DeCamp Alison | 1 | Available | 33111007960079 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For history lovers and journal fans comes a "hilarious and heartbreaking . . . 99-100% fantastic" (A Fuse #8 Production, School Library Journal) story about a boy on a mission to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan.
There are many things that 11-year-old Stanley Slater would like to have in life--most of all, a father. But what if Stan's missing dad isn't "dearly departed" after all?
Armed with his stupendous scrapbook, full of black-and-white 19th-century advertisements and photos, Stan's attempt to locate his long-lost hero/cowboy/outlaw dad is a near-death adventure fraught with pesky relatives, killer lumberjacks, and poisonous pies! His tale will leave readers in stitches, but not the kind that require medical attention.
Praise for My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)
"A knee-slapper of a debut featuring a narrator who is rather less than 99 percent reliable but 100 percent engaging." --Kirkus Reviews
"[An] exuberant first novel." --Publishers Weekly
"Stan's story is full of his hilarious misunderstandings and overactive imagination. Interspersed throughout are pictures and news clippings embellished with wisecrack remarks, speech bubbles, and the occasional mustache." --Booklist
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249).
In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.