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Melonhead is my preferred name. Preferred by me, not my mom. She likes people to call me by my real name, Adam Melon. Luckily, it’s too late for that because when my friend, Lucy Rose, invented Melonhead, it caughton fast.Usually I am the one doing the inventing. All my life, which is 10 years, great ideas have been popping in and out of my melon head. Sometimes they work. This year they’d better, because our class is entering an inventing fair. My friend Sam and I are dreaming up plans. And Capitol Hill has a ton of places to find invention parts. We just have to make sure to get home on time, with no excuses. If we get first place at school, it will be Chantilly, Virginia Regionals, here we come!The first book in an all-new series by Katy Kelly is nonstop adventure—and trouble.
About the Author
Katy Kelly- Here's the Thing About Me!
Melonhead and Lucy Rose are growing up in row houses on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Not surprising since I grew up four blocks from the Capitol of the United States. Melonhead is based on my bother and my five Melonheaded nephews. Lucy Rose is a lot like my sister, Meg, and a little like me. Madam and Pop are very similar to my parents. Lots of what happens to them, happened to the Kelly kids.
My parents never got around to buying a TV, so my brother, Mike, and sisters, Meg and Nell spent most of our time running around the neighborhood. In the summer we rode our bikes down Capitol Hill and, in the winter, our sleds. When we were bored, we took the underground mini-subway the very short distance from the Senate to the Capitol. We'd ride back and forth thirty or forty time or it until the conductor said we couldn't. We scoped out quiet halls in the Old Senate Office Building where we could shuck our shoes, pull up our socks, run and slide on the marble floors. When the Secret Service motorcade passed our house we'd wave like mad in case the president was looking out of his tinted windows. Mike got his hair cut in the Supreme Court barbershop. My sisters and I could not. There were no women Justices then so the barber never learned to do haircuts for ladies and girls.
Before I wrote books for kids I worked for People magazine and, after that, as a features reporter for USA Today. The best thing about being a reporter is getting to meet all kinds of different people, which also turns out to be my favorite part of writing children's books. I visit schools all over the country and meet extraordinary kids and teachers. Sometimes kids give me hilarious ideas I use in a book. At home I work with my excellent assistant, Georgie. She is a dog. When she is tired of writing she stands up on her hind legs and slams my laptop computer shut.
There are six Melonhead books in the series and four in the Lucy Rose series. I hope you get to read them all.
You can find out more about me at katykellyauthor.com and e-mail me at katykelly202.com. I always answer. You can finf my books and more at amazon.com/author/katykelly
Happy reading!!
