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Authors: Janet Tashjian

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• My Life as a Book
• Fault Line
• Multiple Choice
• Tru Confessions
• Marty Frye, Private Eye
 
The Larry Series:
• The Gospel According to Larry
• Vote for Larry
• Larry and the Meaning of Life
Janet Tashjian is the author of many popular novels, including
My Life as a Book, the Larry series—The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry,
and
Larry and the Meaning of Life
—as well as
Fault Line; Multiple Choice; Tru
Confessions,
and
Marty Frye, Private Eye
. She lives with her family in Los Angeles, California.
author
Jake Tashjian is the illustrator of
My Life
as a Book. He has been drawing pictures of his vocabulary words on index cards since he was a kid and now has a stack taller than a house. When he's not drawing, he loves to surf, read comic books, and watch movies.
illustrator
Summary: Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime—to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star—but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.
 
 
Henry Holt
®
is a registered trademark of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Text copyright © 2011 by Janet Tashjian
Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Jake Tashjian
All rights reserved.
 
 
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Publishers since 1866
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10010
 
 
eISBN 9781466822900
First eBook Edition : May 2012
 
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tashjian, Janet.
My life as a stuntboy / Janet Tashjian ; with cartoons by Jake Tashjian.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“Christy Ottaviano Books.”
[1. Stunt performers—Fiction. 2. Motion pictures—Production and direction—Fiction. 3. Monkeys as pets—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Family life—California—Los Angeles—Fiction. 6. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction. 7. Children's art.] I. Tashjian, Jake, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.T211135Myf 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010029884
First edition–2011
Book design by Elynn Cohen

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