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Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser has written many critically acclaimed novels for adults, teenagers, and children, including the award-winning Can’t Get There from Here, Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, If I Grow Up, Famous, and How I Created My Perfect Prom Date,... Read full bio

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Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. Writing until three, then spending the rest of the afternoon surfing with my kids
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Todd Strasser's Books

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1.
No Place
No Place By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: January 28, 2014
Ages: above 12
Other Formats: eBook
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How I Spent My Last Night On Earth
How I Spent My Last Night On Earth By: Todd Strasser
This edition: eBook, 208 pages
Publication date: November 20, 2012
Ages: above 12
Something strange is happening in the parking lot of Time Zone High: The established cliques aren't in their usual gathering places. Instead, everyone has joined in one large, frantically interacting mass. Why? Maybe it's...
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Boot Camp
Boot Camp By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: March 6, 2012
Ages: above 12
From Todd Strasser, a “truly shocking” (Kliatt) account of the prison-style workings of teen boot camps.Garrett is an average fifteen-year-old, except that he’s in love with an older woman. Even though...
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Give a Boy a Gun By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: March 6, 2012
Ages: above 12
Featuring a new trim size and a new line look, Todd Strasser’s acclaimed account of school violence that Kirkus Reviews calls “vivid, distressing, and all too real.”For as long as they can remember, Brendan...
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How I Changed My Life
How I Changed My Life By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: November 8, 2011
Ages: above 12
Bolita (Bo for short) and Kyle are not exactly in the same clique: She’s the shy girl working backstage at the school play, and he’s front and center as Time Zone High’s star quarterback. But then Kyle blows...
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The Shore
The Shore Shirt and Shoes Not Required; LB (Laguna Beach) By: Todd Strasser and Nola Thacker
This edition: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publication date: April 26, 2011
Ages: above 14
One group on the Jersey Shore, another in Laguna Beach. Both have the same summer-tastic setup: total strangers sharing a house. No one sleeps, no one cleans, and everybody parties. And to pay their ways, each housemate slags...
Other Formats: eBook
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Famous
Famous By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: January 25, 2011
Ages: above 12
All Jamie Gordon wants to do is to take pictures of celebrities...and maybe to become famous herself. She's only fourteen, but already her pictures are sought after by fanzines and websites, and she's invited to all the best...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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Shirt and Shoes Not Required
Shirt and Shoes Not Required (Part of Summer Share) By: Todd Strasser
This edition: eBook, 272 pages
Publication date: May 11, 2010
Ages: above 14
A house at the beach. A bunch of hot strangers. A three-month party that's Off The Hook. Seven randoms cram into a house down the shore, and they've all got agendas. Curt wants a gig. Polly wants a life. Owen's jonesing for...
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If I Grow Up By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: above 12
"WHEN YOU GREW UP IN THE PROJECTS, THERE WERE NO CHOICES. NO GOOD ONES, AT LEAST." In the Frederick Douglass Project where DeShawn lives, daily life is ruled by drugs and gang violence. Many teenagers drop out of school and...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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How I Created My Perfect Prom Date By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: February 19, 2008
Ages: above 12
Nicole Maris has it all: looks, popularity, and Brad Selden, the hottest guy in school, at her fingertips. But then Brad decides to take someone else to the prom! Now Nicole's got a project on her hands: find an even better...