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Melonhead is still pals with Lucy Rose, but he's not going to Parks & Rec camp this summer. He ruined one of Mrs. Wilkins's favorite garden plants, so his parents have "loaned" him to her to do chores. This is going to mess up his summer plans if he doesn't figure something out. He and Sam need to find a way to get to New York City to see the titan arum "bunga bangkai" plant. It's supposed to be twelve feet tall, weigh a hundred pounds, and smell like dead mammals, plus rot, plus spoiled food. It only blooms once every seven years, and even then only for two days and then it keels over dead. It's the Big Stink of a Lifetime! But Melonhead has to get a few more good deeds out of the way first, and doing chores for Mrs. Wilkins is a good start, even if it wasn't in the plan to begin with!



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Katy Kelly

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!!



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