Kevin has a bad attitude. He's the one who laughs when you trip and fall. In fact, he may have been the one who tripped you in the first place. He has a real knack for rubbing people the wrong way—and he's even figured out a secret way to do it with poems. But what happens when the tables are turned and he is the one getting picked on? Rhyme Schemer is a touching and hilarious middle-grade novel in verse about one seventh grader's journey from bully-er to bully-ee, as he learns about friendship, family, and the influence that words can have on people's lives.

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Product Description: There isn’t a mirror big enough in this godforsaken town, says the speaker in K A Holt’s “Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman,” to show me my whole new self. That’s the kind of Texas sass informs this engaging, funny, and formally inventive first book, in which a strong, undeceived woman casts an eye on Walmart, Sunday school, the movies, ventriloquists’ dummies, and much more of the strange landscape of these States—beloved, difficult country...read more