Beekman's Big Deal - Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Beekman O'Day has spent his entire life moving from place to place with his wheeler-dealer father, Leo. They've lived everywhere in Manhattan, from hotels to apartments to rented rooms, and Beekman has attended nine schools. Now Beekman is in a new home and about to enter school, ready to go through the motions of meeting new kids and teachers. He knows that this lifestyle has got to go; that it's time to make a deal with Leo and put an end to their pick-up-and-go shenanigans. And with a little help from the neighbors and his first best friend, Beekman is going to do all it takes to make his big deal happen.
This sly and wise second novel charts the course of a young man who is discovering how to go somewhere new by standing his ground and staying in place.
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About the Author:
Michael De Guzman worked for over twenty years as a scriptwriter of television movies before he began writing children's books. He is the author of Melonhead, which School Library Journal praised as "outstanding." He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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A note from the author
I started writing books for young readers when I turned sixty (I wrote scripts for television movies for twenty years). I don't know why, except that it occurred to me I could write what I wanted, the way I wanted, for a demanding audience that would accept nothing less than the best work a writer had to offer.
When I was a kid, there was the world the way it was and the world the way I wanted it to be. That's how I still see it. My characters are innocents. They are romantics. They are bright and tough and they see a thing through. How else can a kid survive?
From Beekman's Big Deal
Beekman didn't think that an interview with yet another new school qualified as a big day. Especially when the fall term had already started. Four days ago. But he kept this to himself. He'd been to too many schools to make an issue of it.
"Think big, live big," Leo said.
"Think small, live small," Beekman said.
"Now you're talking," Leo said. He started singing "Over the Rainbow."
Beekman washed his hair, which was brown and grew in several directions at once and fell forward over his forehead, no matter how much effort he put into training it. He soaped his body. There wasn't an ounce of fat on him. His rib cage looked like a section of bumpy road. He thought that a truly big day would be one in which absolutely nothing happened.
Michael De Guzman worked for over twenty years as a scriptwriter of television movies before he began writing children's books. He is the author of Melonhead, which School Library Journal praised as "outstanding." He lives in Seattle, Washington.
A note from the author
I started writing books for young readers when I turned sixty (I wrote scripts for television movies for twenty years). I don't know why, except that it occurred to me I could write what I wanted, the way I wanted, for a demanding audience that would accept nothing less than the best work a writer had to offer.
When I was a kid, there was the world the way it was and the world the way I wanted it to be. That's how I still see it. My characters are innocents. They are romantics. They are bright and tough and they see a thing through. How else can a kid survive?
From Beekman's Big Deal
Beekman didn't think that an interview with yet another new school qualified as a big day. Especially when the fall term had already started. Four days ago. But he kept this to himself. He'd been to too many schools to make an issue of it.
"Think big, live big," Leo said.
"Think small, live small," Beekman said.
"Now you're talking," Leo said. He started singing "Over the Rainbow."
Beekman washed his hair, which was brown and grew in several directions at once and fell forward over his forehead, no matter how much effort he put into training it. He soaped his body. There wasn't an ounce of fat on him. His rib cage looked like a section of bumpy road. He thought that a truly big day would be one in which absolutely nothing happened.
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0374306729
- ISBN 13 9780374306724
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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