Scrawl A Novel [Paperback]

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. Somethingreallybad.

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 been a camp counselor, a radio announcer, a ma?tre d' in a fancy restaurant, a New York City tour guide, and a creative advertising guy. He's written many books about many thingssharks, storms, robots, palindromes, gorillas, dodo birds,Star Wars, Ben Franklin, how to hide stuff, how to voodoo your enemies, and how to make a video from start to finish. He's written picture books for Oscar de la Hoya (the boxer) and Shamu (the whale). Mark is from Rochester and Buffalo, New York, but he has lived in New York City for so very long that he tawks like he's from da Bronx. So do his kids. His wife, Kara, a grade school reading specialist, has perfect diction.

Scrawlis the rare novel written from the bully's point of view. . . . It's useful to point out that much can hide under a hardened exterior. Los Angeles Times

There's something special about this book. . . . It's all put together so pleasingly, with punch and wit and smarts, and in such a way that the events and characters stay with you. PW.com Shelf Talker blog

A memorable debut. Kirkus Reviews

With the potential to occupy the rarified air of titles like S. E. Hinton'sThe Outsidersand Chris Crutcher'sStaying Fat for Sarah Byrnes,l“+