Out of Patience
Meehl, Brian
ISBN 10: 0440420903 ISBN 13: 9780440420903
Published by Yearling, 2008
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Synopsis:
Some folks have skeletons in their closets. The Waters have toilets. Jake’s mortified by his dad’s dream to open the American Toilet Museum. Toilets have caused enough turmoil in Patience, Kansas. Patience has been cursed for 129 years, since Jeremiah Waters installed the first flush toilet. The Dolphin Deluge Wash-Down Water Closet caused a stink, and since then Patience has been drying up like a cow pie in August. Jake wants out of Patience, especially when his dad gets a relic for his museum, triggering the curse’s last promise: “The day the Plunger of Destiny returns to Patience, the final destruction begins!” Can Jake save Patience by discovering what happened when Jeremiah last sat on the Dolphin Deluge Wash-Down Water Closet?
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author:
The first characters Brian Meehl brought to life were not in books. They lived on TV and movie screens in the form of Muppets on "Sesame Street" and in Jim Henson films, including roles in the cult classic, "The Dark Crystal." Shifting his hand from puppets to pen, Meehl won two Emmys while writing for PBS children's television shows such as "The Magic School Bus" and "Between the Lions."
He then returned to his first love: books. Meehl has published four novels (3 YA, 1 middle grade) with Random House: Out of Patience, Suck It Up, Suck It Up and Die, and You Don't Know About Me. The first was a Junior Library Guild Selection, the last won a Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books, while two of them garnered starred PW reviews and spots on numerous state readings lists. He also published one of his oft-optioned screenplays as an adult novella, Pastime.
More recently, Meehl has been writing Blowback, a YA trilogy harmonizing time-travel, historical fiction sports and romance. For more, visit brianmeehl.com.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Out of Patience
Publisher: Yearling
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good