{"product_id":"chronicles-of-a-lizard-nobody-the-hat-of-great-importance-isbn-9781536253061","title":"Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody: The Hat of Great Importance","description":"On what should be a normal school day at their normal school—recently rebuilt at great expense by the town’s supervillain after her son destroyed it with a giant robot pelican suit—things begin to spin out of control for monitor lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia and Meil the hawk the moment they board the school bus. For no good reason, Zeke is deeply unsettled by Daniel’s new pink hat. The tower sprouting on the town’s tallest hill surely contains a Death Ray of Death. And Meil’s predator instincts have kicked in: what if he accidently eats his friends or their new classmate, Peggy the flounder, in her portable aquarium? At school, Zeke suspects the new guidance counselor—who hails from the same pelican crime family as their nemesis—of turning Daniel and Alicia against him. Or was it something Zeke said? With lively graphic illustrations, breakneck action, and a big heart, book two blends droll satire with belly laughs to prove that when life turns up the heat ray, you get to choose who to be. Even unlikely reptilian heroes need the courage to say they’re sorry.Once more, Ness offers probing explorations of a prejudiced status quo. . . . Miller’s art continues to give every scene a pitch-perfect feel, with illustrations that wring both understated hilarity and pathos from the pages. . . . [A] superior blend of humor and heart.\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmart, funny, whimsical, and full of heart, this speaks directly to middle-grade readers' concerns about fitting in, keeping friendships, and navigating the world's unfairness despite well-meaning adults who haven't a clue.\u003cbr\u003e—Booklist\u003cb\u003ePatrick Ness \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eChronicles of a Lizard Nobody\u003c\/i\u003e and the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Monster Calls\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Finalist, and was made into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy, \u003ci\u003eMore Than This\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRelease\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Different for Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Us Just Live Here\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBurn\u003c\/i\u003e. His many accolades include two Carnegie Medals, an Olivier Award, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eChildren’s Fiction Prize, the BookTrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Patrick Ness lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Miller \u003c\/b\u003eis the author-illustrator of \u003ci\u003eMoo Moo in a Tutu\u003c\/i\u003e;, \u003ci\u003eWhat’s Cooking, Moo Moo?\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTiny Kitty, Big City\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Izzy Paints\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the illustrator of \u003ci\u003eChronicles of a Lizard Nobody\u003c\/i\u003e by Patrick Ness, \u003ci\u003eHorse Meets Dog \u003c\/i\u003eby Elliott Kalan, \u003ci\u003eSnappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSnappsy the Alligator and His Best Friend Forever! (Probably)\u003c\/i\u003e by Julie Falatko, \u003ci\u003eMargarash \u003c\/i\u003eby Mark Riddle, and the middle-grade series Hamstersaurus Rex by Tom O’Donnell. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three rescue cats.\u003cb\u003eChapter One: Daniel Wears A Hat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo lizards looked at the hat a third lizard was wearing while they all waited for the school bus. The hat was pink, though that wasn’t the problem.\u003cbr\u003e“It’s pink,” Zeke said to Daniel, who wore the hat.\u003cbr\u003e“I like pink,” Daniel said.\u003cbr\u003e“I know you do,” Zeke said, still staring at the hat, worried for no reason he could exactly put his finger on, though, again, it wasn’t to do with the color. Daniel liked pink. This was known, much in the same way Zeke liked, say, potatoes cooked in any form. “If you were going to wear a hat, I would have guessed it would be pink.”\u003cbr\u003e“I know!” Daniel said, still smiling. He turned to Alicia. “Do you like it?”\u003cbr\u003e“I’d say it was more of a salmon color, really,” said Alicia.\u003cbr\u003e“I’ve never met a salmon!” Daniel said.\u003cbr\u003eNone of them had ever met a salmon. Fish were incredibly hard to meet. They had their own schools in their own neighborhoods in lakes and rivers and the ocean. They were a whole other world.\u003cbr\u003e“Why are you wearing a hat?” Zeke asked, still uneasy.\u003cbr\u003e“Don’t you like it?” Daniel asked, sounding worried now, too.\u003cbr\u003e“No, no!” Zeke said. “I like it. It’s cool. Pink is cool.”\u003cbr\u003e“Or salmon,” said Alicia.\u003cbr\u003e“But?” Daniel said, a little more observant than usual.\u003cbr\u003e“Well,” Zeke said. “Don’t only birds wear hats?”\u003cbr\u003e“Is that a rule?” Daniel asked, sounding genuinely curious.\u003cbr\u003eAnd at that, the three lizards paused. Because no, there wasn’t a rule exactly . . . But there sure \u003ci\u003eseemed \u003c\/i\u003eto be a rule. Was it a rule if it wasn’t actually written down anywhere but was something that everyone knew anyway and acted like it was?\u003cbr\u003e“Huh,” Zeke said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two: Our Lizards, Here They Are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are our lizards, Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia, stepping back as the school bus pulls in. All three are what’s known as monitor lizards: Alicia and Daniel were clouded monitors whose green skin was covered in patterns of little yellow spots, and Zeke was a peach-throated monitor whose throat was, well, peach-colored. He was considerably larger than his two clouded monitor friends even though peach-throated monitors were, on the whole, smaller than clouded monitors. Such was life. Averages are just averages, and you meet people outside them all the time.\u003cbr\u003eThey got on the bus, driven by the same shrew who had always driven it. The lizards lived the farthest away of any student, being bused in from the poorest part of town under a program to get species to mix more at school, which also meant they were the first people on the bus every morning, aside from the very quiet triplet daughters of the shrew who’d just started that year and were so small even Daniel could have put them in a pocket.\u003cbr\u003eNone of the shrews, father or daughters, commented on the hat. But Zeke could see them looking.\u003cbr\u003e“There’s going to be trouble,” he thought, but he said it out loud, too.\u003cbr\u003eAlicia shoved him gently and said, “Let him have his hat.”\u003cbr\u003eZeke followed his friends to their normal seats, Daniel at the window, Zeke next to him, Alicia on the seat in front of them, leaning over to keep talking. They were on their way to a normal school day at their normal school—recently rebuilt at great expense by the town’s supervillain after her son had destroyed it with a giant robot pelican suit (it was a whole thing). Daniel and Alicia were already wearing their Hall Monitor sashes, while Zeke’s was in his backpack with his books. Principal Wombat had made three monitor lizards into the only three Hall Monitors in school. This was probably a pun, but if so, it was the fault of the Principal and not your narrator.\u003cbr\u003eIt was their job to watch out for late-arriving students or students who were in the hallway when they weren’t supposed to be. In other words, they monitored the halls. Being a Hall Monitor, though, was not, as the lizards had repeatedly pointed out to Principal Wombat, a job that was going to help their already quite low popularity.\u003cbr\u003eExcept Zeke had been the one to stop the giant robot pelican suit, as well as the regular-sized pelican, Pelicarnassus, who had been flying it. Zeke and his friends—not just Alicia and Daniel, but Miel, too, the blind hawk with the very loud voice who was probably cooler than the entire school put together but didn’t seem to know it.\u003cbr\u003eThey were the ones who’d done that.\u003cbr\u003eBut then they were also the ones who Pelicarnassus had been after, so it was a bit of a debate among the other students whether they were to be credited or blamed. Not an unusual spot for a lizard, really.\u003cbr\u003e“What’s that?” Alicia asked, looking out the window.\u003cbr\u003eA tall, narrow tower was being built on the tallest hill in town. Two cranes—machines, not birds, though they were in fact operated by cranes—brought materials up to the very top of the tower, building something that couldn’t quite be made out. Then it was gone as the bus drove through some trees.\u003cbr\u003e“That’s where Pelicarnassus and his mom live,” Zeke said.\u003cbr\u003e“What are they building?” Alicia asked.\u003cbr\u003e“It’s probably a Death Ray of Death,” Daniel said.\u003cbr\u003eBut instead of laughing at what might seem like a joke, both Alicia and Zeke nodded and said, “Probably.”\u003cbr\u003e“Anyway,” Daniel said, cheerful again as the bus made another stop (it never took him long to be cheerful again), “I like the hat. I’ll bet everyone else will, too.”\u003cbr\u003e“ARE YOU WEARING A HAT?” said Miel, tapping his way to the seat he always took across the aisle. His voice was very shouty, even though he tried to keep the volume down. There were only so many ways a hawk could speak. “I AM SURE IT IS A FINE ONE!”\u003cbr\u003e“Don’t only birds wear hats, though?” Zeke asked.\u003cbr\u003eThere was a pause, as Miel seemed to think about this behind his sunglasses. “DO WE?”\u003cbr\u003e“We only ever see them on birds,” Zeke said. “And now Daniel.”\u003cbr\u003e“MY DAD DOESN’T WEAR A HAT. NOR DO I. DO MOST OTHER BIRDS REALLY WEAR HATS? NO ONE’S EVER SAID!”\u003cbr\u003e“Pelicarnassus wears a hat,” Zeke said.\u003cbr\u003e“PELICARNASSUS IS NOT A GOOD GUIDE TO BIRD BEHAVIOR,” Miel said, frowning.\u003cbr\u003e“That’s certainly true,” Alicia said.\u003cbr\u003e“Most of the other birds wear hats, too, though,” Zeke said. “You look up on the jungle gym and it’s just birds with hats all the way up.”\u003cbr\u003e“I DO NOT LIKE THAT I DID NOT KNOW THIS,” Miel said. “THEY COULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING. ESPECIALLY AS I DO NOT WEAR A HAT.”\u003cbr\u003e“You want to wear my hat?” Daniel offered.\u003cbr\u003e“OH, NO, THANK YOU, I DO NOT LIKE HATS. THOUGH, AGAIN, I AM SURE YOURS IS WONDERFUL.”\u003cbr\u003e“It really is,” said Daniel.\u003cbr\u003e“See?” Alicia said. “It’s going to be fine.”\u003cbr\u003eReader, it was not fine.","brand":"Candlewick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233027862757,"sku":"NP9781536253061","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781536253061.jpg?v=1767723720","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/chronicles-of-a-lizard-nobody-the-hat-of-great-importance-isbn-9781536253061","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}