Hi everyone! Today Iām excited to participate in the creative tour for My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner organized by MTMC Tours! My Life as a Potato is a hilarious Middle Grade story about a boy forced to become the dorkiest school mascot ever! Releases on March 24th, 2020 from Random House Books for Young Readers.
My Life as a Potato by Arianne Costner, James Lancett
Published by Random House ISBN: 0593118669
on March 24, 2020
Genres: Middle Grade
Pages: 272
Format: eARC
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Source: Netgalley, Author, MTMC Tours
I received this book for free from Netgalley, Author, MTMC Tours in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
For anyone who has ever felt like a potato in middle school, this hilarious story about a boy forced to become the dorkiest school mascot ever will have readers cheering!
"A grade A, spudtastic (not to mention FUNNY) debut. Arianne Costner sure knows middle school and middle schoolers!" --Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Ben Hardy believes he's cursed by potatoes. And now he's moved to Idaho, where the school's mascot is Steve the Spud! Yeah, this cannot be good.
After accidentally causing the mascot to sprain an ankle, Ben is sentenced to Spud duty for the final basketball games of the year. But if the other kids know he's the Spud, his plans for popularity are likely to be a big dud! Ben doesn't want to let the team down, so he lies to his friends to keep it a secret. No one will know it's him under the potato suit . . . right?
Life as a potato is all about not getting mashed! With laugh-out-loud illustrations throughout, hand to fans of James Patterson, Gordan Korman, Jeff Kinney, and Chris Grabenstein!
"A hilarious, relatable story for any kid who has ever felt out of place." --Stacy McAnulty, author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
… The Reader’s Review …
I ADORED My Life as a Potato! It’s funny and full of potato content as our main spud hero, tries to lead a normal potato-free life (he HATES potatoes and is most probably cursed by them) while navigating a new school that just so happens to have a potato as its school mascot. And now, after an unlucky hot-dog tossing game, he is now tasked to become his worst nightmare. *Cue the potatoes*
I had the time of my life reading about Ben and his antagonism towards potatoes! This reminds me of my sister who HATES, absolutely HATES, a fruit called “Jicama” and every time I mention them she stops specifically anything she’s doing to hiss “I hate Jicamas”. I love it. Makes me laugh every time and now I will forever remember Ben and his potatoes.
But for real, being the school mascot sounds like a nightmare and being a potato is just SMASHING. Ben is extremely embarrassed by his newly found Potato Status and thus begins his secret life as Steve the Spud. So many potato shenanigans ensue in this heart-warming, laugh-out-loud, and giver of second-hand embarrassment Middle Grade novel about trying to fit in with new friends (perhaps even get a date for the school dance) and of the world’s dorkiest but most spudtastic mascot ever.
Go read it now!!!
It Ben:
… How much of a Potato are you?…
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About Arianne Costner
Arianne Costner is a past English teacher who lives in the middle of the desert with two toddlers bent on destroying her house. When she isn’t writing, she can be found playing the piano and composing music. She was a Pitchwars mentee in 2017, and a Pitchwars mentor in 2018. Her debut, MY LIFE AS A POTATO, is being published by Random House in Spring 2020, with a second novel to follow in 2021.
Sounds like me with zucchini!