MMGM-Scary School by Derek Kent, plus giveaway Interview and Giveaway @ Mixed Up Files

Good Monday morning all. Hope you enjoying your Marvelous Middle Grade Monday, so far. I know I am!

EDITING TO ADD...Winner of DOGSLED DREAMS is Marybelle (commenter number one, that's a first! heh heh). Just waiting to hear back from her.

Now, back to the regular programming.

Have an interview and giveaway going on over on The Mixed Up Files of Middle Grade Authors...with a kid ghost named Derek. The same Derek the Ghost that wrote the ultra fun and creepy scary SCARY SCHOOL. Not only does he have a super cool book, his website for the book ROCKS!

I think what I loved most about this book is that I am pretty sure kids will love the no fear writing...it's funny, it's silly, it's scary as are all the characters. Kids respect that kind of writing, I think. As I read I couldn't wait to see and meet the teachers. My favorite is Miss Fang and next is the nurse. Well, there is also the multi-eyed teach. And then there is the new kid who does a not so good job of trying to fit. Don't think I ever stopped smiling as I read this one. Here's a bit more from Indie Bound:

You think your school's scary?

Get a load of these teachers:

Ms. Fang, an 850-year-old vampire
Dr. Dragonbreath, who just might eat you before recess
Mr. Snakeskin—science class is so much more fun when it's taught by someone who's half zombie
Mrs. T—break the rules and spend your detention with a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex!

Plus

Gargoyles, goblins, and Frankenstein's monster on the loose
The world's most frighteningly delicious school lunch

And

The narrator's an eleven-year-old ghost!

Join Charles "New Kid" Nukid as he makes some very Scary friends—including Petunia, Johnny, and Peter the Wolf—and figures out that Scary School can be just as funny as it is spooky!

If you head on over to From The Mixed Up Files you can read my interview with Derek the Ghost and enter a giveaway to win the book!

More Marvelous Middle Grade goings on:

Shannon Whitney Messenger (founder and genius behind MMGM)-Ramblings of a Wannabe Scribe 

Jennifer Rumberger-Children's Author

Joanne Fritz-My Brain on Books
Shannon O'Donnell-Book Dreaming
Myrna Foster-The Night Writer
Sherrie Petersen- Write About Now 
Natalie Aguirre-Literary Rambles
Brooke Favero-Somewhere in the Middle
Ally Beecher- Kid Lit Frenzy
Barbara Watson-Novel and Nouveau
Anita Laydon Miller-her middle grade blog
Michael G-G-Middle Grade Mafioso
Jessica Lei-her blog  
Pam Torres-So I'm Fifty
Akoss-Nye Louwon – My Spirit | a search for the writer in me
Gabrielle Prendergast-Angelhorn