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I Am Fartacus

Irrepressibly funny, with an unforgettable cast of characters, this is the debut of a great new voice in young fiction for boys.

Maciek Trzebiatowski aka Chub, is a short, accidentally bald, middle-school outcast with no chance of ever becoming one of the popular kids. With help from his personal Cadre of like-minded misfits (not to mention tactics gleaned from the Colonel, a US military vet with toenail issues), the Chub’s determined to bring down his nemesis, class hero and now potential class president “The Arch” – the very guy who betrayed Chub with the lice-killing potion that left him bald as a billiard ball. If the Arch gets to be president, Chub knows his life is officially over.
Chub’s got a lot of dirt on the Arch. The embarrassing photos, the underwear about to fly from the school flagpole, for starters. But then he discovers that there are some very dangerous skeletons in Archer’s closet, and more at stake than just a few middle-school reputations. With a lot of help from his friends, Chub sets off to bring down an evil empire – and inadvertently become the least likely hero that Alanmoore Middle School’s ever seen.

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USA/Canada: Aladdin (Summer 2017)