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How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied Jess Keating

How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied By Jess Keating

How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied by Jess Keating


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How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied by Jess Keating

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

How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied Reviews

A wild romp, filled with humor and heart. - Lisa Schroeder, author of It's Raining Cupcakes and the Charmed Life series
As if junior high isn't enough of a zoo, Jess Keating's debut... [is] a menagerie of laugh-out-loud antics and relatable tween woes. - Anna Staniszewski, author of The Dirt Diary
This debut novel deals with the hardships of junior high in a funny and zany, yet thoughtful, manner. True animal facts that are interspersed throughout the story add wit and provide the reader with some new information. This novel is a must-have for any classroom and library...highly recommended. - Library Media Connection
A zoologist, an educator, and an author, Jess Keating wrote the perfect book for students: a middle grade guide for navigating a zoo- I mean, middle school... My Life is a Zoo series speaks to tweens - About.com
A clever and humorous middle grade book filled with middle school angst and lots of interesting creature information. - Examiner.com
Debut author Keating delivers a fun-filled, pitch-perfect book...Humor, poignancy and fascinating zoological facts infuse the narrative with a warm conversational tone...An amusing, highly readable book about the perils of being 12 in a snake-eat-snake world. (Starred) - Kirkus Reviews
Ana's relationships with her parents and grandfather are a perfect blend of respect and frustration, while her lack of self-confidence will resonate with readers... Recommended for fans of Coco Simon's 'Cupcake Diaries' and Stuart Gibbs's 'FunJungle series. - School Library Journal
An absolutely perfect summer read. - Girls' Life Magazine.com
Keating, a zoologist, enriches her debut novel with fascinating animal facts, awkward moments with a variety of wild species, and creature files Ana uses to amusingly classify her peers. - Publishers Weekly
Life is literally a zoo for shy 12-year-old Anna, who is trying to avoid seventh-grade bullies while hiding that her family lives among crocodiles and elephants. - Los Angeles Times
A pleasant, upbeat story and a likable protagonist with whom most readers will empathize. Humorous and honest, this will please a wide audience. - Booklist
A little bit of romance, a little bit of well deserved revenge, and a whole lot of laughs, heart, spirit, and I can SO relate moments, fill the pages of How To Outrun A Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied. Readers young and old will go wild for this book and impatiently be awaiting its sequel. A definite MUST read! - Word Spelunking

About Jess Keating

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.

Additional information

CIN1402297556G
9781402297557
1402297556
How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied by Jess Keating
Used - Good
Paperback
Sourcebooks, Inc
20140703
288
Commended for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2016
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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