Robyn Parnell 
The Mighty Quinn 

Quinn Andrews-Lee feels anything but mighty, and faces a dismal school year. His little sister outshines him athletically and socially, he yearns for a service award his peers disdain, and charismatic bigot Matt Barker’s goal in life is to torment Quinn and lure his friends to the dark side. When Quinn reports an act of vandalism, he is accused of injuring Matt. Neally Standwell, a free-spirited new kid in Quinn’s class, helps Quinn deduce who hurt Matt, but Matt would probably dieand would definitely liebefore admitting the truth.Through events comical and poignant Quinn and Neally solve the right mystery just as everything seems to go wrong, thwart a bully without becoming one in turn, and realize that the fabled ability to belch the entire alphabet might very possibly trump any award ever presented at Turner Creek School.Book comes complete with discussion questions and activities.

Table of Content

by chapter:1 Don’t Make Me Use This 2 Listen Up3 The Worms Go In, The Worms Go Out4 Mickey Gets Anty 5 Because She Can 6 Quinn Pays Attention 7 Famous Carrot Diver8 A Regular Volunteer9 The First Time I Cracked My Head Open10 The Best Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jam Sandwich Ever11 Howdy, Neighbor12 I Knew There Was a Reason I Liked Her 13 Muffins of Infinity 14 The Hamster Patch Quilt 15 The Muffin Fairy 16 With Liberty and Justice For All17 Could She Belch the Entire Pledge of Allegiance? 18 Click on One of These 19 It’s a Grownup Thing 20 Ka-Winn 21 Very Small Gum Wrappers Could Be Hiding22 The Three Trashketeers23 Brandon Knows How to Spell 24 I Have Many Secrets25 The Law of Proportionality 26 What Life Smells Like 27 Smoke Ring Weather 28 The Orange Chair29 Neally Looks It Up30 But Not Anymore31 Cheesy Poodle Sandwiches 32 My New Dead Friend 33 See The Day34 Oh, Yeah35 The Most Awesome Cloud You’ll Ever See

About the author

Robyn Parnell’s country/western-flavored song, ‘If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead?’ mercifully remains unpublished and unrecorded; nevertheless, her fiction, essays and poems have appeared in ninety books, magazines, anthologies and journals. Publishing credits include her book of short fiction, This Here and Now, a children’s picture book, My Closet Threw a Party, and now the middle-grade novel, The Mighty Quinn.Parnell is the second of four children and the middle daughter, which means she is destined for either ground-breaking gender role usurpations or middle management in Tupperware® sales. She lives and writes in Hillsboro, Oregon, (city motto: ‘Yeah, we’re not Portland, but at least we’re not Oxnard.’), sharing her life with one husband, two children, four cats, one bearded dragon, one corn snake, one ball python, one goldfish and innumerable dust bunnies.Katie and Aaron De Yoe met while studying graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Though they are both full-time graphic designers, they spend most of their free time drawing, doodling, painting and printing. They also enjoy riding their serendipitously matching red Schwinns around Minneapolis.