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Andy Behrens

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Behrens lives in Chicago.

Biography: Behrens has written young adult novels and for the ''Chicago Reader'', ''Chicago Sports Review'', ''Flak'' magazine, ''NBA.com'' and ''ESPN.com''. He currently writes for Yahoo! Sports, providing fantasy football and fantasy baseball coverage as the editor of the site’s Roto Arcade Blog. In 2008, he received an award from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association for Baseball’s Best Print Article.


Awards:
  • ''The Fast and the Furriest'', 2014 ILLINOIS READS Book

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children; Young adult readers

Blog: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/fantasy-roto-arcade/?author=Andy+Behrens
Email: andy.behrens@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/andybehrens
Website: http://sports.yahoo.com/author/andy-behrens/
Andy Behrens on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=andy++behrens


Selected Titles

All the way
ISBN: 9780142408339 OCLC: 259768750

Speak, New York : 2007.

Hoping to have sex for the first time with a girl he has met on the Internet, seventeen-year-old Ian drives with his two best friends from Illinois to South Carolina.

All the way /
ISBN: 0525477616 OCLC: 62290443

Dutton Books, New York : ©2006.

Hoping to have sex for the first time with a girl he has met on the Internet, seventeen-year-old Ian drives with his two best friends from Illinois to South Carolina.

Beauty and the bully
ISBN: 9781440630033 OCLC: 883299539

Dutton Children's Books, New York : 2014.

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Beauty and the bully /
ISBN: 0525478981 OCLC: 163706903

Dutton Books, New York : 2008.

Hoping to attract a beautiful student activist who is the long-time object of his unrequited crush, Duncan Boone, lead guitarist in a rock band, enlists the help of a school bully whose sister wants to be in the band even though she is the worst guitar player in the universe.

Sex drive /
ISBN: 0142412600 OCLC: 859326959

Hoping to have sex for the first time with a girl he has met on the Internet, seventeen-year-old Ian drives with his two best friends from Illinois to South Carolina.

The fast and the furriest
ISBN: 9780375859007 OCLC: 320622634

Alfred A. Knopf, New York : 2010.

The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.

 

 

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