The Great Jeff
Hello and thanks for visiting my website. My name is Tony Abbott, and I am and have been a full-time children&#;s writer for almost 30 years. I have written about books, including Danger Guys, The Secrets of Droon, Firegirl, Kringle, The Postcard, Lunch-Box Dream, Underworlds, Goofballs, The Copernicus Legacy, and many more.
My most recent books are Junk Boy (HarperCollins, ), The Great Jeff (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, ), The Summer of Owen Todd (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ), and Denis Ever After (HarperCollins, ).
I live and work in Trumbull, Connecticut, USA.
I speak at schools and conference. Click here for information about arranging a visit with your organization.
October
Junk Boy was published on October It is my first novel for young adult readers (YA). Reviews have been favorable, and it is a Junior Library Guild selection.
&#;This poignant novel in verse captures the bleakness and frustration of both teens&#; lives and draws them out of their despair with courage and compassion. The end may be a little too neatly tied up, but after the preceding trauma, the conclusion is both hopeful and a relief.&#;
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The Secrets of Droon: Volume I: Books
March 9,| Reader Fox Blog |
I was seven years old when I first read The Secrets of Droon books. I remember specifically because we bought them for the family road trip from California to Walt Disney World right before my eighth birthday, which we spent there in Florida. Very much an avid reader then and reading at a level higher than my age would have typically suggested, I recall being thoroughly pleased with myself for having read four of these books in what amounted to only a few hours. It was the first time I had ever done so.
As I look back on it now, what had once appeared to me an amazing feat really just seems like a reasonable event.
Rereading The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet by Tony Abbott was an interesting experience. While I have the ability to look back on the story and characters fondly, as an adult with much more experience and knowledge of writing, plot, and character development I find that this book is severely lacking. But, is that a bad thing? As a child, I enjoyed it. I devoured these books. They were fun and full of adventure. They made me eager to read more.
Literary Merit
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Tony Abbott is the author of more than seventy books for young readers, including the Danger Guys books; The Weird Zone series; the novel Firegirl, which won SCBWI�s Golden Kite Award; a hardcover from Scholastic Press, Kringle; the mystery novel The Postcard; and The Haunting of Derek Stone series.
Since childhood, Tony has been drawn to stories that challenge the imagination, and, like Eric, Julie, and Neal, he often dreamed of finding doors that open to other worlds. Now that he is older–though not quite as old as Galen Longbeard–he believes he may have found some of those doors. They are called books.
Tony Abbott was born in Ohio and now lives with his wife and two daughters in Connecticut. For more information about Tony and the epic saga of Droon, visit
Books
The Great Jeff
, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
A companion to the modern classic Firegirl
Critical response to The Great Jeff:
Starred Review “This is an exquisitely moving yet completely age-appropriate dive into a kid’s experience of impoverishment; Jeff’s narration poignantly maps the discrepancy between his loud-mouthed attention-getting behavior and his internal desperation(“Full of myself?Ha! I was full of nothing”). Jeff’s individuation from his mother is a key plot point, but the book portrays her downspiral convincingly and not unsympathetically, and thoughtful readers will catch contributory complexities that keep this from being simply a story of parental failure. Fortunately, there’s enough love and kindness here to temper the grimness.”—BCCB, starred review
“A moving, realistic coming-of-age tale.” ―Kirkus
“…a hopeful coming-of-age story that portrays the challenges of poverty in a realistic and relatable way.”―Booklist
“A powerful and realistic story of a boy coming of age with a family in crisis.”―School Library Journal
“For fans of Firegirl, this follow-up is a must-read…this novel is a solid addition to
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