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Death by toilet paper

Contest-crazed twelve-year-old Ben uses his wits and way with words in hopes of winning a prize that will keep his family from being evicted until his mother can pass her final CPA examination.

Main Author: Gephart, Donna.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, [2014]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Contests > Juvenile fiction.
Money-making projects for children > Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families > Juvenile fiction.
Toilet paper > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Contest-crazed twelve-year-old Ben uses his wits and way with words in hopes of winning a prize that will keep his family from being evicted until his mother can pass her final CPA examination.
Physical Description: 265 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780385743990 (hc)
0385743998 (hc)
9780375991431 (glb)
0375991433 (glb)
Author Notes: Donna Gephart's first novel, As If Being 12-3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running For President! won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her novel, How To Survive Middle School, received starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal and Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, about a girl determined to get on a TV quiz show sold to Random House.

In addition to writing books for children, Donna has written for newspapers and magazines including: Family Circle Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Newspaper, Parenting, Highlights for Children, Scholastic's Storyworks Magazine and many others.

She's a featured speaker at elementary and middle schools, book festivals, libraries and conferences, including the S.C.B.W.I. National Conference, the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, the Conference on Children's Literature, and Bookmania.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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