Join us this Saturday afternoon from 12pm to 2pm and meet local author CB Lilley. She will be on hand to sign her debut novel,
Blame it on Barbara.
Blame it on Barbara is a riveting mystery novel targeted for kids aged 9 through 14. Several copies are currently available for purchase in our shop. Additional copies will be available on the 20th. A great summer read!
About the Author:
CB Lilley was born in Lancaster County in 1976 and grew up enjoying the relative calm of life in rural Pennsylvania. While she is not Amish, her heritage is heavily steeped in that tradition. After graduating as the valedictorian of her high school in 1994, she moved to Los Angeles and attended a writing program at the University of Southern California. After spending 10 years writing on the west coast, she grew weary of the “monster” known as Hollywood and decided to publish Blame it on Barbara. It was a difficult decision, but one which, thanks to the overwhelming success of the book, she has not had the opportunity to regret.
About the Book:
Before her grandmother came to town, Barbara Birnbaum was just an average seventh grader at Warren G. Harding Junior High in Clarence, Indiana. She was, in fact, what some might describe as exceedingly average – average height, average grades, average looks, average everything. Her older brother and sister were the family favorites, above average in almost every way, and her younger brother and sister…well they were just weird. Over time, Barbara slowly blended into the background of her own life, not just at home but also at school where she was scarcely noticed by her classmates. Barbara never imagined that she could miss her old boring life, but that was before she was being hunted down by some of the world’s most dangerous villains!
In his hometown of Los Angeles, California, Jesse Jessup was a mischievous trouble-maker whose parents had long since washed their hands of him. They shipped him off to live with his grandmother in Clarence, Indiana, where he remained a mischievous trouble-maker whose parents had long since washed their hands of him. This big-city kid from California might as well have been from Moscow, since Los Angeles seemed just as foreign a place to be from to the other kids at Warren G. Harding Junior High.
Social misfits Jesse and Barbara find friendship in each other as they embark in the greatest adventure of their lives. Jesse’s fearlessness and Barbara’s keen insight make them a perfect team of temporary CIA agents as they inadvertently land themselves smack in the middle of a dangerous mission led by Barbara’s grandmother. They’ve got no one to depend on but each other as they face rogue SVR agents, dangerous thugs, mad scientists and their own insecurities in order to save themselves, their town and possibly even the world from certain destruction.
Summer is for so many things, but this week at Beetle Creek Kids, Summer is for Picnics!
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