Awards

• Commended for Cybils (Middle Grade Fiction) 2012
• Short-listed for Golden Sower Award (Intermediate) 2015
• Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Children's) 2013
• Short-listed for Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Grades 3-5) 2015

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With a full comic adventure that includes a farting superhero, this is an excellent reccomendation for kids transitioning between graphic novels and traditional books. -- Kirkus

With a full comic adventure that includes a farting superhero, this is an excellent reccomendation for kids transitioning between graphic novels and traditional books. --Kirkus Tucker's rapport with his brother, concern for his mother, and frustration with his absent father (who now 'only existed in e-mails') add emotional depth to Harkrader's believable portrait of school and family life. --Publishers Weekly Harkrader has created superb characters...Fans of Dav Pilkey's 'Captain Underpants' (Scholastic) or Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' (Abrams) books will embrace Tucker and his winsome, quirky friends and schoolmates. --School Library Journal, starred review [Harkrader] offers another knowing, funny, and sometimes moving look at middle-school issues. --Booklist

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Lisa Harkrader's debut novel, AIRBALL: My Life in Briefs (Roaring Brook), described by SLJ as a quirky combination of The Mighty ducks meets Captain Underpants, has been on state award lists in Kansas, Texas, Washington state, Florida, Maine and was a Bank Street College Best book of the year, a Texas Lonestar Award Nominee, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and New York Public Library Best book for the teen Age. She makes her home with her family on a farm in Kansas.

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