A smart and funny tale of perseverance, teamwork, and the true meaning of success.
Strange things are happening at Ho-Ho-Kus Junior High. The cafeteria is covered in a sea of burger wrappers. Bullies aren’t bullying anymore. And there’s an eerie growling coming from the walls.
If anyone can get to the bottom of these mysteries, it’s Denton, Wendell, Eddie, Elijah, and Bijay. They may be misfits, but they’re also the smartest kids in the eighth grade. There’s just one problem. Vice Principal Snodgrass has framed them for a crime they didn’t commit and imprisoned them in a secret room in the bowels of the school. His terms: Ace the dreaded Idaho Tests and all will be forgiven. Their plan: figure out who—or what—is to blame for the changes at school. It will take the nerdiest of skills. It will be scarier than talking to girls. It will be a true test, one that can be passed only by a select few. And those five boys are known as DWEEB.
Andy Rash (www.rashworks.com) was born on a mountain top in Tennessee, educated in the swamps of Georgia and the canyons of New York, and now lives with his family in Milwaukee. In addition to writing and illustrating children's books, Andy has illustrated for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker.
Aaron Starmer is the author of more than a dozen middle grade and young adult novels, including You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This, Night Swimming, the Locker 37 series, The Riverman Trilogy, and Spontaneous, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Paramount Pictures. His books have been translated into multiple foreign languages and have appeared on best-of-the-year lists from TIME magazine, the Wall Street Journal, New York Public Library, YALSA, Bank Street College of Education, Chicago Public Library, and School Library Journal. He lives in Vermont with his wife and two children.
You can find Aaron online at @AaronStarmer
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