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Born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York, James Patterson is a prolific author who has written detective stories, thrillers, science fiction, romance and young adult novels. His first book was published in 1976; 20 years later he left his advertising career to focus on writing. Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for having the most books on\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>‘ best-seller list.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7549″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp \u2013 until he finds out it\u2019s a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger Eater, who puts up with endless teasing from the other kids. Rafe soon realises there\u2019s more to a person than a nickname, though, and Booger Eater might be the kind of friend you want on your side when the boys from the Cool Cabin attack.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7550″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest, everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon, and all the attention might be going to his head. Not only are his friendships starting to suffer, but the pressure of coming up with his best material ever for the ultimate standup act to snag the final win in Hollywood is pushing Jamie to the brink. Suddenly, life isn\u2019t looking very funny anymore. Can Jamie take the grand prize without pushing away his fans, friends and family?<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7551″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

Jamie Grimm has finally accomplished his dream of proving himself the Planet\u2019s Funniest Kid Comic, and the sky\u2019s the limit from there. Enter a couple of TV executives with a huge plan for Jamie: a new show about Jamie and his oddball friends! But when Jamie struggles to learn the acting ropes, will it be an early curtain call for the biggest show of the decade?<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7552″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

After winning the New York state finals in the Planet\u2019s Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie\u2019s off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family health scare rears its head, Jamie has to put his comedic ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7553″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world\u2019s greatest stand-up comedian \u2013 even if he always seems to \u2018choke\u2019 in the spotlight. When Jamie finds out about a contest called the Funniest Kid on the Planet, he knows it\u2019s time to face his fears and enter. But are the judges rewarding him out of pity because he happens to be in a wheelchair, like his bullying cousin Stevie suggests? And will Jamie ever share the secret of his troubled past \u2013 and reason for his disability \u2013 instead of hiding behind his comedy act?<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7554″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

When the biggest heist in history takes place in Moscow, the Kidds rush in to save the day \u2013 but instead, they\u2019re accused of being the thieves themselves. Time is running out to find the stolen treasure, and they\u2019re this close to being thrown into a Russian prison for a crime they didn\u2019t commit!<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7555″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

Bick and Beck Kidd are desperately trying to secure the ancient Chinese artefact that will buy their mother\u2019s freedom from renegade pirates. But when the kidnappers force them to locate an even greater treasure \u2013 priceless paintings stolen by Nazis, the Kidds must rely on their own cunning and experience to outwit the criminals, all while their mom\u2019s life is on the line.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7556″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

Four kids on a quest to find the legendary Mines of King Solomon\u2026and their parents. Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are navigating their way down the Nile, from hot and dusty Cairo to deep dark jungles, past some seriously bad guys along the way. They\u2019ll need all their survival instincts just to make it out alive\u2026<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7557″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and travelling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But after their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7558″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez and his \u2018bro-bot\u2019 E are making new friends every day as E works as his bedridden sister Maddie\u2019s school proxy. But disaster strikes when E malfunctions just in time to be upstaged by the super-cool new robot on the block \u2013 and loses his ability to help Maddie. Now it\u2019s up to Sammy to figure out what\u2019s wrong with E and save his family!<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7559″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he\u2019s dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot he calls E \u2013 for \u201cError\u201d. Sammy\u2019s no stranger to robots \u2013 his house is full of a colourful cast of them. But this one not only thinks it\u2019s Sammy\u2019s brother\u2026 it\u2019s actually even nerdier than Sammy.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7491″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat_1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7560,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}