Whoa!!! It's the Ultimate Author Smackdown . . . Game Show!!!!

Wooooo . . . from the Windy City to the Big Apple!

We were in New York for the Ultimate Author Showdown LIVE game show and the kick-off of the Scholastic Summer Challenge.

It began with rehearsals in the Scholastic Auditorium . . .



The contestants were authors, Moi, RL Stine, host/former National Ambassador of Young People's Literature Jon Sciezska, Gordon Korman, and Christopher Paul Curtis . . .




Here's why we were selected to compete:

RL Stine has over 300 millions books in print.
Gordon Korman...