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Synopsis
A road novel for young readers
Twelve-year-old Sidney T. Mellon has an unfortunate name considering that his head is round and much too large for his body, his red hair stands straight up in a long crew cut, and his expression is perpetually flushed. A cantaloupe is what usually comes to mind. So does the nickname Melonhead.
What chance does Sidney have, looking like this, yo-yoing back and forth between Seattle and Los Angeles, living part of each year with each of his divorced parents? He is disconnected from both distracted parents; he is disconnected from his own distracted self. No wonder he gets on a bus in Los Angeles one day and heads for New York City, making up ridiculous names and stories about himself at the drop of a hat whenever he meets somebody new. But each of the people Sidney meets on his diesel-powered journey across America contributes something to his understanding of who he is and where he's going. What he will do when he gets there, what he will discover about the unhappiness in his life, he has no idea. He just knows that he has to find out.
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From the Author
This is the paperback edition of Melonhead, which was published in hardcover in 2002 and is now out of print. I've brought it back on my own. I thought it would be a good idea to make it available at a reasonable price. You can read reviews by clicking on the hardcover version. (The Kindle version will be available soon.) This was my first novel for young readers. I'm still writing them - five more published since then. A new one to come later this year.
About the Author
Michael de Guzman worked for over twenty years as a scriptwriter of television movies; Caroline?, his teleplay of E. L. Konigsburg's Father's Arcane Daughter, was nominated for an Emmy in 1990. Melonhead is his first novel for children. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0374349444
- ISBN 13 9780374349448
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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