Barry Squires, Full Tilt

SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE: Barry Squires is SO funny and SO poignant-this is a book that readers will want to talk about.STAND-OUT CHARACTERS: As with all of Heather's books, readers will fall in love with Barry and all his family and friends.ISSUES WITH A LIGHT TOUCH: Heather is a master at weaving in important issues amongst the humor: bullying, racism, ADHD are all addressed here, but in the funniest and most compassionate way.AWARD-WINNING NOVELS: The Agony of Bun O'Keefe won the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award (teen choice) as well as the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award (also student choice) and was shortlisted for The Amy Mathers Teen Book Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award. It also made several "best of year" lists, including Kirkus, The Bank Street College of Education, The Globe and Mail, The Writers' Trust of Canada and Quill & Quire (honorable mention), among others. Her MG book, Ebb and Flow (Kids Can Press) won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, was shortlisted for the OLA's Silver Birch Award and won Newfoundland's prestigious BMO Winterset Award.BUILDING ATTENTION FOR HEATHER SMITH: The Agony of Bun O'Keefe was part of the Editor's Choice feature of BookBrowse, which receives about 100,000 unique weekly visitors.BUN O'KEEFE AND CHICKEN GIRL IN AUDIO! The Agony of Bun O'Keefe was read by Amanda Arcuri, star of several Degrassi series, including Degrassi: Next Class (2016).