Anyway*

*a Story about Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti

By: Arthur Salm

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Hardcover | 1 May 2012

At a Glance

Hardcover
192 Pages

Age
9 - 12

Grade
4 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
21.59 x 14.61 x 2.54

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Reinventing yourself takes humor, heart, and a TON of footnotes!

Max is a good kid'but you wouldn't know that if you met him at the boring family camp his parents dragged him to over the summer. There, for a few exciting weeks, Max reinvents himself as 'mad Max' and gains a bad-boy reputation for being daring, cool, and fearless.
But when Max returns home, he finds it's easier to be fearless with strangers than it is among friends, and he is not particularly proud of the way his behavior over the summer hurt people. Can he find away to merge his adventurous alter ego with his true identity as a good guy?
Peppered with humorous handwritten footnotes and doodles throughout, Anyway* perfectly captures the viewpoint of a young teen doing his best to find his place in the world'and an ideal balance between wise guy and wimp.

Industry Reviews

"Everything about this book screams summer fun."--The Washington Post "Conveys with keen perception the revelations that persona can be a choice and that people tend to take us as we offer ourselves; it's also sympathetically realistic about the need to calibrate that choice a little in the face of its consequences...The affable yet thoughtful treatment of shifting adolescent identity will ring true with kids thinking about changing their own reps, and it'll gratify readers that the nice guy definitely doesn't finish last."--BCCB "In Max, Salm has created a likable everykid who's shy and caring, but who also possesses flashes of petulance, goofiness, self-doubt, and--yes--questionable decision making that make him very real. The 138 footnotes, set in a font that resembles hand-lettering, are smoothly integrated into the story and contribute to its easygoing, memoirlike pace."--Publishers Weekly

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