Available: January 2021

Reading Level: Grade 2 - 3 • Interest Level: Grade 2 - 3
No One Closes My Park and Gets Away with It
Available: January 2021
Author: Wil Mara
Specs: 5 1/4” x 7 1/8” • 64 pp •
HC ed.: 978-1-5383-8425-1 • $17.95 | $13.45
eBook: 978-1-5383-8427-5 • $17.95 | $13.45
Pbk. ed.: 978-1-5383-8426-8 • $10.55 | $8.95
While walking home from school one day, Izzy discovers that the only park she's ever known is being closed so townhouses can be built on the site. But Izzy plans to fight this any way she can, even if that means going all the way to town hall. Will she be able to save Harmony Hill Park?

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About the Author:
Wil Mara is a veteran author with more than 200 books to his credit, both fiction and nonfiction, for children and adults. His work for children includes more than 150 educational titles for the school and library markets, and he has also ghostwritten five of the popular Boxcar Children mysteries. His titles have received excellent reviews not only from consumers but also in all respected journals, such as SLJ, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book, Children's Literature, and others. His first novel for adults, 2005’s Wave, won the New Jersey Notable Book Award. More recently, his thriller Frame 232 reached the #1 spot in its category on Amazon, won the Lime Award for Excellence in Fiction, and was a finalist for the Christy Award. The hit 2014 feature film Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner, was based on his novel The Draft, published by St. Martin's Press in 2006. He is also an associate member of the NJASL, and an executive member of the Board of Directors for the New Jersey Center for the Book; an affiliate of the US Library of Congress.