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  • Published: 15 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780440416814
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $15.99

Boys in Control




Tired of the boring British book build-up on your shelves? Here's a sparkling USA-all-the-way antidote. Let's make the ninth book in the boy/girl battle series by Newbery Naylor a big hit. This series packs plenty of humor and action, and fits the bill as an all-American family story of competition and cooperation. It's your duty as American booksellers to show your true colors.

Play ball! That’s what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale for the Women’s Auxiliary of the Buckman Fire Department the very same day in their very own yard! Not wanting to miss out on the game, the family elects the only nonbaseball fan in the family, Wally, to stay home and help watch over the sale tables until they return. Wally’s ticked off. On top of that, Caroline Malloy has written and will perform a play for a school project and has roped Wally into costarring with her. Let Caroline think she’s so smart. Wally has his own reason for being in the play. It looks like the Hatfords could be totally humiliated after the girls stumble upon an embarrassing item from the boys’ past. Leave it to Wally’s secret plan to turn the tables on the girls’ scheme and prove who’s really in control! Boys rule!

  • Published: 15 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780440416814
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $15.99

About the author

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor grew up in Anderson, Indiana, and Joliet, Illinois. She loved to make up stories and write little books when she was growing up, and sold her first story when she was 16 for $4.67.  Naylor worked as a teacher and an editor before she began to write full-time in 1960. She sold her first book for children in 1965. Her book Shiloh won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and later became part of a quartet of novels. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland with her husband, Rex who is a speech pathologist. They have two grown sons and four grandchildren.

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Praise for Boys in Control

"Naylor crafts a briskly paced story with a plot full of laughs and pranks."--Booklist

". . . A fast-paced read, and fans of the series will welcome it."--School Library Journal