Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend
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Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan Cumyn
Prepare to be blown away--or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings--by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new...pterodactyl...at school. After all, everybody wants him!Shiels is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the Student Body Chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for?
But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There's something about him--something primal--that causes the students to lose control whenever he's around. Even Shiels, the seemingly perfect self-confident girl that she is, can't keep her mind off of him, despite her doting boyfriend and despite the fact that Pyke immediately starts dating Jocelyn, the school's fastest runner who Shiels has always discounted as a nobody.
Pyke, hugely popular in a school whose motto is to embrace differences, is asked to join a band, and when his band plays at the Autumn Whirl dance, his preternatural shrieking music sends everyone into a literal frenzy. No one can remember what happened the next day, but Shiels learns that she danced far too long with Pyke, her nose has turned purple, and she may have done something with her boyfriend that she shouldn't have. Who's in control now?
Hilarious and relatable (despite the dinosaur), Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend is about a teen who must come to terms with not being in control of all things at all times, break free of her mundane life, discover who her true self is, and, oh, finding out that going primal isn't always a bad thing.
Alan Cumyn
Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): Ottawa writer Alan Cumyn is the author of seven highly acclaimed but wildly different novels, all published in the last ten years. Burridge Unbound and Man of Bone, which both won the Ottawa Book Award and were respectively shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Award, explore issues of the struggle for personal dignity in the face of human rights abuses. His first novel for children, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, won the Mr. Christie's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. He is also the author of Losing It, a darkly funny exploration of madness and a satire on modern sexual mores, Waiting for Li Ming, a cross-cultural romance set in China, and Between Families and the Sky, a coming-of-age story. His latest novel is The Sojourn, set in the trenches of Ypres and the streets of London in 1916. Alan has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod, and he has taught English in China and Indonesia. He also worked for eight years for the Immigration and Refugee Board in Ottawa, researching and writing on international human rights issues. For the past two years he has been Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee for PEN Canada. He is married and has two children.
Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): Ottawa writer Alan Cumyn is the author of seven highly acclaimed but wildly different novels, all published in the last ten years. Burridge Unbound and Man of Bone, which both won the Ottawa Book Award and were respectively shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Award, explore issues of the struggle for personal dignity in the face of human rights abuses. His first novel for children, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, won the Mr. Christie's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. He is also the author of Losing It, a darkly funny exploration of madness and a satire on modern sexual mores, Waiting for Li Ming, a cross-cultural romance set in China, and Between Families and the Sky, a coming-of-age story. His latest novel is The Sojourn, set in the trenches of Ypres and the streets of London in 1916. Alan has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod, and he has taught English in China and Indonesia. He also worked for eight years for the Immigration and Refugee Board in Ottawa, researching and writing on international human rights issues. For the past two years he has been Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee for PEN Canada. He is married and has two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781481439800 |
| ISBN 10 | 1481439804 |
| Titel | Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend |
| Autor | Alan Cumyn |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Atheneum Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-03-22 |
| Seitenanzahl | 416 |
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