<div>A cockroach wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a boy Shoebag likes his life as a cockroach. Like the others in his &ldquo;tribe,&rdquo; he was named for the place of his birth&mdash;in his case, a white summer sandal. He enjoys living in a Boston apartment building with his parents, Drainboard and Under The Toaster, although they&rsquo;ve lost countless relatives to jumping spiders, water bugs, beetles, and the deadly fumes of the dreaded exterminator. So when Shoebag discovers that he&rsquo;s been transformed into a person, he&rsquo;s horrified. But the worst is yet to come. Shoebag is adopted by the Biddle family and renamed Stu Bagg. Mr. Biddle enrolls him in Beacon Hill Elementary School, and every night for one hour before bedtime, he watches television with Eunice &ldquo;Pretty Soft&rdquo; Biddle, his new seven-year-old sister, who loves the color pink and is the star of toilet paper commercials. At school, Shoebag tries to fit in as a human, while back home he tries to protect his insect family from spiders, cats, and the Zapman. Then Shoebag discovers a secret formula that could change him back into a roach. All he has to do is choose. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection. </div>

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<div>In the hilarious sequel to Shoebag, the cockroach uses his magical abilities to help a lonely boy at an all-girls&rsquo; school Shoebag and his roach family have taken up residence in the Lower School at Miss Rattray&rsquo;s School for Girls in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Shoebag and his parents, Drainboard and Under The Toaster, like their new home because it&rsquo;s close to the kitchen. But lately, Shoebag has been dreaming about the time he was transformed into a person named Stuart Bagg&mdash;probably because the all-girls&rsquo; school has just admitted its first boy. Homesick ten-year-old Stanley Sweetsong doesn&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;ll ever be good enough to join the Betters, the school&rsquo;s most exclusive club. What he needs is a pal&mdash;someone to help him hatch a plan to outsmart these snobs. So Shoebag uses his secret formula to transform himself back into Stu Bagg. Suddenly, Stanley has a new roommate who inspires him to come up with a better, even more elite club: the Butters. Stanley and Josephine Jiminez, his only other friend at school, are the charter members. When the club is banned by Miss Rattray, they&rsquo;re forced underground&mdash;but with Shoebag&rsquo;s help, Stanley and Josephine concoct the perfect recipe for revenge . . . This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection. </div>

Shoebag Returns

<div>The fantastical story of a lonely eleven-year-old whose parrot takes him on a magical mystery tour of a planet where sleeping is against the law Chester Dumbello&rsquo;s mom interprets people&rsquo;s dreams. One day a white, one-eyed parrot flies into the Dream Caf&eacute;. Chester&rsquo;s mom says that the day something rhymes with orange, they can keep the parrot. Since nothing does, she comes up with the name Lornge, and the parrot becomes the newest member of the Dumbello family. But there&rsquo;s something odd about Lornge: He never sleeps. (Or as he puts it, &ldquo;I tell no lies, nor shut my eyes.&rdquo;) It&rsquo;s summer, and school&rsquo;s out&mdash;Chester&rsquo;s favorite time of year because the other kids can&rsquo;t bother him about his unusual mother. But he feels trapped in a tug of war between his aunt Dolly, who wants Chester to visit, and his mom, who doesn&rsquo;t want him to go. Then one night, Lornge takes him to the planet Alert, where sleeping is against the law. Chester is adopted by a family named Quick&mdash;boasting a mother and a father&mdash;and meets all kinds of strange and interesting people. He goes to school, but before long, he is convicted of being a &ldquo;shuteye&rdquo; and gets thrown in jail. Suddenly, his home in Lucy, Mississippi, is looking a whole lot better. This is a wildly inventive novel about a boy who yearns to run away&mdash;only to discover that there&rsquo;s no place like home. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection. </div>

The Shuteyes

<div>A fourteen-year-old boy invents a comic-book fantasy world ruled by a book-dwelling insect named Frankenlouse I am called Nick. I was fourteen the year of this story, the year that changed my life . . . Nick Reber is a cadet with cartoonist dreams. Nick&rsquo;s father, a by-the-books control freak, believes his son&rsquo;s creative aspirations are a waste of time. As commanding officer of Blister Military Academy, he makes Nick march in step&mdash;or else. Nick misses his mother, who ran away, although she promised to one day send for him. As a form of escape, Nick creates a whole world inside his head&mdash;a comic strip featuring an insect that lives in the pages of Frankenstein. All the other book lice in the library fear Frankenlouse. But just like Nick, Frankenlouse feels trapped. He wants out of his book, just like Nick wants to escape&mdash;until a life-changing decision puts Nick on a collision course with his father. Narrated in Nick&rsquo;s distinctive voice, Frankenlouse is about finding your authentic self. It&rsquo;s a story of friendship, growing up, and the complicated bond between fathers and sons. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection. </div>

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