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Overview

Brian Hobble isn't much of a writer—he's more of a soccer player. (And sometimes he's not much of a soccer player either!) But one day he borrows a pink Easyflow pen from Nathan Lumsdyke during his favorite author's school visit, and suddenly he can't stop writing. Unfortunately for Brian, the pen only writes flowery, embarrassing love stories, even in his science test. Brian can't wait to give the weird pen back . . . until he realizes Cassandra Wyman is a lot more interested in writing than she is in soccer!

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Brian Hobble isn't much of a writer—he's more of a soccer player. (And sometimes he's not much of a soccer player either!) But one day he borrows a pink Easyflow pen from Nathan Lumsdyke during his favorite author's school visit, and suddenly he can't stop writing. Unfortunately for Brian, the pen only writes flowery, embarrassing love stories, even in his science test. Brian can't wait to give the weird pen back . . . until he realizes Cassandra Wyman is a lot more interested in writing than she is in soccer!

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Gr 5-8-When soccer superstar Brian Hobble borrows a pink Easyflow pen from his nemesis Nathan Lumsdyke, he is suddenly blessed with creative writing skills. Unfortunately, the pen is only capable of writing sappy romantic fiction, even when used on a science test, and he's forced to read it aloud. (It turns out that the pen belongs to Nathan's mother, a well-known romance writer.) Word spreads about Brian's supposed talent and he is chosen to be in a Special Interest Writing Group. He then has to figure out how to gain the admiration he craves from the brainy girl he has a crush on and not disappoint his favorite author, who selected him for the group. Though there are no surprises here, readers will want to know how the boy gets out of his predicament. The black-and-white sketches are humorous, as are Brian's interpretive definitions of select words at the start of each chapter. An interesting premise couched in a contemporary, comical narrative.-Emily Rodriguez, Alachua County Library District, Gainesville, FL Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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A lad discovers that the path to greater self-esteem is paved with Words in this angst-ridden, occasionally funny import. Brian might bill himself a "soccer superstar, boy genius and red hot babe magnet," but in truth, he's a shy underachiever-until he borrows a certain pink and purple pen from a classmate whose Mom is a renowned romance writer. Suddenly, without conscious effort, he's dashing off dewy tales of auburn-haired beauties with thin cotton blouses, or for a bio quiz, a melodramatic tearjerker featuring a frog named Miranda who sacrifices herself to rescue her heartthrob Giles from dissection. Interspersed with handwritten sheets, crudely sketched pre-adolescent wish-fulfillment drawings and small flip-page sequences of frogs hatching and coming to gruesome ends, Brian's bemused account builds to the triumphant discovery that, even without that particular pen, he wields the Writer's power to shape his narrative as he pleases. Tulloch shoehorns in so many subplots, extraneous characters and earnest passages of creative writing advice that the tale seems overstuffed, but aspiring young writers, at least, will appreciate Brian's epiphany. (Fiction. 11-13)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780802780584
  • Publisher: Walker & Company
  • Publication date: 5/2/2006
  • Pages: 208
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.29 (w) x 8.09 (h) x 0.89 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Tulloch grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied law and education and worked as a taxi driver, radio announcer and theatre director. He is a full-time writer of books, plays, screenplays, and television shows for children, including over 150 episodes of Bananas in Pajamas, which have reached an audience of hundreds of millions around the world. He has two children and lives in part of the year in Sydney and part of the year in the Netherlands with his wife, Agnes.

Shane Nagle worked as a graphic designer before becoming a freelance illustrator in 1992. Since then his illustrations have appeared in magazines such as Time, New Scientist, and Rolling Stone and in over thirty children's books—four of which he wrote. Shane lives with his daughter in Byron Bay, Australia, where he enjoys a second career as a performing artist.

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  • Posted November 19, 2008

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    Reviewed by Jeremey for TeensReadToo.com

    Soccer star Brian Hobble (AKA the Ice Man) is like any normal kid. He likes soccer, but what he likes even more than soccer is girls! One in particular - Cassandra Wyman - but she pretends that Brian isn't even alive.

    After a big soccer game (that Brian helped win) he feels as though he is on top of the world. Things get better when Brian's favorite author, Lancelot Cummins, visits his school. Everyone is amazed that the author who wrote Brown Gunk From Mars, The Flushing, and My Mom is a Zombie Killer has come to their ordinary school to help them learn English.

    Mr. Cummins gives the class an assignment, to write what would happen in fifteen minutes while observing their neighborhood. Brian, not being much of a writer, tries to waste time (i.e. taking awhile to write his name). Once he begins to write his pen runs out of ink and the school nerd, Nathan Lumsdyke, lends Brian one of his.

    Brian turns his nose up at the pink Easyflow pen, but nevertheless begins writing. His penmanship with this pen transcends from messy to neat and flowery. Before he knows it, Brian has written four-and-a-half pages.

    Seeing Brian's long piece, Mr. Cummins asks him to read it aloud and Brian, who does not remember what he has written, is intrigued himself. Brian and the whole class learns that instead of writing about his neighborhood, the pen had written a romantic love story! His story is both captivating and stimulating, but he is still made fun of by the guys in his grade.

    Brian soon discovers that the pen only writes embarrassing love stories (after he wrote about two frogs in love for his science test). He can't wait to give the pen back to Nathan, but when Brian discovers that Lancelot Cummins and, more importantly, Cassandra Wyman, are interested in what he writes, who knows what will happen?

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