Scrawl by Mark Shulman

Scrawl by Mark Shulman

Tod Munn is a bully. He's tough, but times are even tougher. The wimps have stopped coughing up their lunch money. The administration is cracking down. Then to make things worse, Tod and his friends get busted doing something bad. Something really bad.

Lucky Tod must spend his daily detention in a hot, empty room with Mrs. Woodrow, a no-nonsense guidance counselor. He doesn't know why he's there, but she does. Tod's punishment: to scrawl his story in a beat-up notebook. He can be painfully funny and he can be brutally honest. But can Mrs. Woodrow help Tod stop playing the bad guy before he actually turns into one . . . for real?

Read Tod's notebook for yourself.

Mark Shulman has worked as a camp counselor, a radio announcer, a maitre d' in a high-end restaurant, a New York City tour guide, and an advertising creative. He's authored books about sharks, storms, robots, palindromes, gorillas, dodo birds, Star Wars, Ben Franklin, how to hide things, kill your enemies, and how to make a film from start to finish, among other subjects. Oscar de la Hoya (the boxer) and Shamu (the whale) are among the celebrities for whom he has written picture books. Mark is from Rochester and Buffalo, New York, but he's spent so much time in New York City that he sounds like he's from the Bronx. His children feel the same way. Kara, a reading specialist in elementary school, has flawless diction.