Mick Harte Was Here

An grant winning, awful youthful center review novel from Barbara Park—the #1 New York Times top of the line creator of the Junie B. Jones arrangement—without flaw for perusers of Frindle, Love That Dog, The Lemonade War, and other exemplary youthful center review favorites.

Kids should die.

Phoebe’s sibling, Mick, was one of the most clever, coolest children you’d ever meet—the child who made you snicker until the point when your stomach hurt, regardless of whether you were frantic at him. The child who cracked his and Phoebe’s mother out by putting an earthenware eye in a defrosted chicken; who went trap or-regarding as Thomas Crapper, the innovator of the current flush latrine; who completed a wild solo move before the whole school. He was the child you’d need to be companions with. So how might he be no more? What’s more, by what means will Phoebe’s family make due without him?

Winner of 12 State Awards!

An IRA-CBC Young Adults’ Choice

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

* “Virtuoso . . . agonizingly genuine . . . incredible.” — Publishers Weekly, featured

“[A] twisting story saturated with cleverness and expectation.” — School Library Journal

For the Review segment (it would be ideal if you include the two surveys and the state grants beneath):

“An exceptionally moving tale about a dynamite 12-year-old kid. Before the finish of the book, perusers miss him, as well.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Stop skillfully intertwines cleverness and agony in this extraordinary, completely acceptable record of Phoebe’s endeavor to adapt to a disastrous misfortune.” — The Horn Book

WINNER—Georgia Children’s Book Award

WINNER—Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award

WINNER—Kansas William Allen White Children’s Book Award

WINNER—North Dakota Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award

WINNER—Rhode Island Children’s Book Award

WINNER—South Carolina Children’s Book Award

WINNER—Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award

WINNER—Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award

WINNER—Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award

WINNER—Iowa Children’s Choice Award

WINNER—Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award

NOMINEE—Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award

WINNER—Kentucky Bluegrass Master List