Roger Mantis by Tom Alan Brosz Release Day Celebration!
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Roger Mantis by Tom Alan Brosz
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Baseball is Roger McGillicutty’s whole life. That is until he wakes one Saturday to find he is no longer a normal eleven-year-old boy. He's a five-foot-tall praying mantis.
Roger has school on Monday, the carnival comes to town next week, and his baseball team is poised to play their biggest rival in one week. Being a giant bug will seriously cramp Roger’s style!
To Roger’s surprise, his parents and friends are supportive. Even his dog isn’t spooked. But not everyone’s thrilled about Roger’s change. Some people are frightened and others would like nothing more than to squash him into the ground like the bug he is.
And when Little League officials oust Roger from baseball, his world collapses.
When a reporter from the city comes snooping around rumors of a man-sized baseball-playing praying mantis, Roger must choose between hiding his true self or being the hero he's always wanted to be.
Roger Mantis by Tom Alan Brosz
Publication Date: April 2, 2019
Publisher: Tantrum Books
Publication Date: April 2, 2019
Publisher: Tantrum Books
Without further incident, Roger managed
to arrive before too much of the lunch period had passed. After
yesterday’s Mystery Meat fiasco, his mother let him take a lunch to
school now instead of eating cafeteria food—another point to chalk
up on the positive side of his transformation. Cafeteria lunches just
didn’t have enough meat in them, so his mother packed him large
portions of bologna, sausage, ham, and other deli meats that didn’t
need much refrigeration. “After all,” Jerry had pointed out,
“the last thing the school wants is a hungry mantis running
around.”
Tom Alan Brosz actually is a rocket scientist (sort of), having done design and engineering work in the private space industry back before the private space industry was cool. His qualifications for writing this book are that he has experience in raising children who like bugs, and raising pet mantises for those children. Normal-sized mantises, of course.
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