{"product_id":"the-great-american-whatever-9781481404105","title":"The Great American Whatever","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFive, Six, Seven, Nate! \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBetter Nate Than Ever \u003c\/i\u003ecomes \"a Holden Caulfield for a new generation\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQuinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry \u003ci\u003eused \u003c\/i\u003eto be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before--before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa...and before the car accident that changed everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter: Geoff, Quinn's best friend who insists it's time that Quinn came out--at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy--okay, a \u003ci\u003ehot\u003c\/i\u003e guy--and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending--if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Federle is the showrunner and executive producer of \u003ci\u003eHigh School Musical: the Musical: the Series\u003c\/i\u003e, which he created for Disney+. His novels include the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book \u003ci\u003eBetter Nate Than Ever\u003c\/i\u003e and its Lambda Literature Award-winning sequel--which Lin-Manuel Miranda called \"a wonderful evocation of what it's like to be a theater kid\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). A film adaptation of \u003ci\u003eNate\u003c\/i\u003e, written and directed by Federle, will premiere on Disney+ in spring 2022. The film stars Aria Brooks, Joshua Bassett, Lisa Kudrow, and Rueby Wood as Nate. Tim's hit series of cocktail recipe books, including \u003ci\u003eTequila Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e, have sold over half a million copies worldwide. He cowrote the Broadway musical adaptation of \u003ci\u003eTuck Everlasting\u003c\/i\u003eand won the Humanitas Prize for cowriting the Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated Best Animated Feature \u003ci\u003eFerdinand\u003c\/i\u003e, starring John Cena and Kate McKinnon. A former Broadway dancer, Tim was born in San Francisco, grew up in Pittsburgh, and now divides his time between Los Angeles and the internet.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515366871314,"sku":"9781481404105","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9fc4a0c3-6862-4b6d-9ba5-19660196ecc1.jpg?v=1731003867","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-american-whatever-9781481404105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}