EllRay Jakes the Recess King! (EllRay Jakes #8)

by Sally Warner (Author) Brian Biggs (Illustrator)

EllRay Jakes the Recess King! (EllRay Jakes #8)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: EllRay Jakes
 Eight-year-old EllRay is down to one-and-a-half best friends, and his little sister points out the obvious: he needs more! EllRay decides to audition other boys for the part, the way his sister is auditioning for the lead role in her day care's spring play. Now, EllRay has to come up with fun things to do at recess, because when he's the Recess King, everyone will want to be his friend!
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Review quotes

ACCOLADES AND PRAISE FOR THE ELLRAY JAKES SERIES:

"Warner is a dead-on observer of playground politics, and has a great ear for dialogue."

—School Library Journal

"Ideal for reluctant readers."

—Booklist

"Young readers can identify with EllRay, who is neither a bad seed nor a goody-two-shoes; he and his sense of humor are just right."

—Kirkus Reviews

A Junior Library Guild selection

A Scholastic Book Club selection

A Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner 2012-13

Sally Warner
Sally Warner grew up in Connecticut and California. She then received her B.A. degree from Scripps College, and her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in fine arts from Otis Art Institute. She worked as an artist (primarily charcoal drawings) for many years, exhibiting her work at galleries, small museums, colleges, and universities across the country. In 1995 she published her first book for young readers, and since then she has published more than 20 novels.

Visit Sally Warner at Sally Warner www.sallywarner.com.

Brian Biggs was born in Arkansas in 1968, moved to Texas in 1979, fled to New York City in 1987 to attend Parsons School of Design, lived in Paris France for a few years, ran away to San Francisco in 1993, and since 1999 he has lived in Philadelphia. Brian illustrated the covers for the first three EllRay Jakes books and also illustrates the Roscoe Riley series for HarperCollins.

For more fascinating information about Brian, visit www.mrbiggs.com.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780147512529
Lexile Measure
690
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
May 20, 2015
Series
EllRay Jakes
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV005000 - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men
JUV045000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Chapter Books
Library of Congress categories
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