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Attack of the tagger

Someone is spray-painting graffiti all over Cedar Valley and it is up to fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, also known as Shredderman, to expose the vandal. Annotation. Nolan Byrd single-handedly saved his school from the bullydom of Alvin "Bubba" Bixby. He posted proof of Bubba's exploits on t...

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Main Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
Other Authors: Biggs, Brian (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2004.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Shredderman ; #02
Subjects:
Graffiti > Juvenile fiction.
Vandalism > Juvenile fiction.
Heroes > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Someone is spray-painting graffiti all over Cedar Valley and it is up to fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, also known as Shredderman, to expose the vandal. Annotation. Nolan Byrd single-handedly saved his school from the bullydom of Alvin "Bubba" Bixby. He posted proof of Bubba's exploits on the Web at Shredderman.com. Now Shredderman is the school hero! But since Shredderman's identity is a secret, everyone still treats Nolan like . . . a nerd. But inside this nerd beats a superhero's heart-one dedicated to truth and justice. So when a vandal spray-paints graffiti around town-and even on his teacher's van!-Nolan decides that tracking down the tagger is a job for Shredderman. But while he's trying to trap the tagger, the tagger is trying to pin the blame on Shredderman! Can Nolan turn the tables back around before his secret identity is revealed? From the Hardcover edition.
Physical Description: 163 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN: 0375823522 (trade) :
0375923527 (library binding)
Author Notes: Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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