How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel
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Publisher Description
For fans of Gordon Korman and Jack Gantos comes the ultimate, middle-grade redemption story, where losers are the real winners.
Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time.
But now he's being forced to join the robotics team, where he'll meet a colorful cast of characters, including: Mikayla, the girl who does everything with her toes; Jacob and Jacob, who aren't twins but might as well be; the sunflower seed-obsessed Stuart; and Missy the Cruel, Luke's innocent-looking bully since they were six-years-old. But it's an unlikely connection with a mysterious boy known only as "Lunchbox Jones" that will change Luke's life. Turns out, Luke and Lunchbox Jones have a lot more in common than just robots . . . .
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Seventh-grader Luke Abbott lives for afternoons spent playing video games like Alien Onslaught. So he is upset when his father insists that Luke join a new after-school robotics club, led by a hapless teacher and populated with a group of misfits who include Lunchbox Jones the near-silent, borderline-feral boy everyone in school fears and Missy Farnham, who has been Luke's enemy ever since she made him the laughingstock of their elementary school. Luke is also covering up feelings of betrayal and abandonment, now that his older brother has enlisted in the Marines. Brown (Life on Mars) offers a winning blend of humorous and poignant moments as Luke comes to see that there's more to Missy and Lunchbox than meets the eye, and that life beyond video games has a lot to offer. Luke's struggles with his brother's choices will resonate with readers facing a complex and uncertain world, while his comically agonized musings ("Something else to hate about robotics: it suddenly made everyone you knew imitate bad robots from 1970s movies") will keep them entertained. Ages 8 12.
