Scrawl: A Novel

Mark Shulman

Sep 2010 · Sold by Roaring Brook Press

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Amazing book. You start understand Tod and his wicked sense of humor after every paragraph. Underneath his bully exterior, he's really just a kid trying to get through life. Pops and his drooges will have you laughing, cringing, and yelling as you read through his journal entries. Of course, it gets kinda confusing if you don't read the chapter dates. A great read that has some real meaning behind it. P.S - People who make signs need to learn grammar! Read the book and you'll get it :P "No trespassing violators will be prosecuted"

Kept my attention, not usually a reader but I loved it!

Im not into reading but I actually did read and enjoy this book

About the author

Mark Shulman has been a camp counselor, a radio announcer, a maitre d' in a fancy restaurant, a New York City tour guide, and a creative advertising guy. He's written many books about many things--sharks, 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.