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Kurtis Scaletta

goodreads author profile


url
http://www.goodreads.com/kurtisscaletta

born
November 22, 1968

gender
male

place of birth
The United States

website

genre
Children's Books, Sports

influences
Daniel Pinkwater, Betsy Byars

member since
March 2007


about this author

I’ve been writing most of my life, but decided about five years ago to focus exclusively on stories for children and young adults. My debut novel, Mudville, was published in 2009 by Knopf. My second novel, Mamba Point, will be published next year.




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0 comments Published on July 02, 2009 14:26
avg rating: 4.42 | 38 ratings | 25 reviews | 2 distinct works | 6 fans
Mudville Mudville
by Kurtis Scaletta (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.42 — 38 ratings — published 2009
2 editions
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Mamba Point Mamba Point
by Kurtis Scaletta (Goodreads author)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010
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Mudville (Children's Books)
1 chapters   —   updated 12/19/2007 07:45PM
description: a novel about fathers and sons, brothers and baseball
July 04
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Kurtis made a comment on Megan's review of Mudville
41531 Kurtis wrote: "You may never read another book with your name misspelled in it. :-) "

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Kurtis made a comment on Sydney's review of Winnie's War
41531 Kurtis wrote: "...and I'm sending J Mo Jungle Crossing tomorrow! "

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June 27
The Dark Days of Ham... Kurtis gave 5 of 5 stars to:
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin (Hardcover)
by Josh Berk (Goodreads author)
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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read in June, 2009

Kurtis Kurtis said: "Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin reminds me of reading Three Investigator books when I was a kid... those were my poison, not the Hardy Boys (which are oft alluded too in DDoHH). It has all the spills and thrills of any mystery a kid reads by night unde...more "
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Kurtis made a comment on Cyn's review of The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
41531 Kurtis wrote: "Cyn wrote: "Josh wrote: "You have made a wise decision."

We shall see ;)"


I agree with the OP.
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Jungle Crossing Kurtis gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Jungle Crossing (Hardcover)
by Sydney Salter (Goodreads author)
my rating:
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The Singing Wilderne... Kurtis gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The Singing Wilderness (The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)
by Sigurd F. Olson
my rating:
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read in June, 2009

Kurtis Kurtis said: "Nice collection of essays about the wilderness, fishing, and basically making city folk like me think that we're going about it all wrong. I see a lot of Thoreau in his philosophy and in his prose. It does get a bit repetitive to read all of the essa...more "
June 17
Scream for Jeeves: A... Kurtis marked as to-read:
Scream for Jeeves: A Parody (Hardcover)
by Peter H. Cannon
my rating:
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June 11
Paris Pan Takes the... Kurtis gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Paris Pan Takes the Dare (Hardcover)
by Cynthea Liu (Goodreads author)
my rating:
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read in June, 2009

Kurtis Kurtis said: "This book is not super scary, but it does have the right ingredients of a thriller for young people mixed up with a little romance, some middle school politics, and a touching family drama. "
May 31
"Twenty TWEET Summer" Twitter Launch Party
Kurtis said "maybe" to attending the event: "Twenty TWEET Summer" Twitter Launch Party.
date: June 05, 2009 07:00PM
location: http://twitter.com - #20BoySummer, The United States
description: Join us for this one-of-a-kind virtual YA book launch party featuring trivia, spontaneous (and inappropriately personal) author Q&A, prizes & giveaways, laughs, & tons of tweety tomfoolery celebrating Sarah Ockler's debut, TWENTY BOY SUMMER!

Details at http://tinyurl.com/TwentyTweetSummer or on Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/20TweetSummer

Party time: 7-11 PM, EST!

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message 3: by Derek
05/22/2009 02:19PM

1494095 Have a great weekend!

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message 2: by William
11/30/2008 01:33PM

1464559 Hey Kurtis
Look forward to talking books
William Elliott Hazelgrove
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http://www.myspace.com/rocketmanbook
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message 1: by Cris
03/28/2007 11:59AM

Nophoto-f-25x33 my, you already have a lot of friends!

I think we should have some kind of Friday Funday related to this site...


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