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Dunk

A sizzling young adult novel about Chad, a teenager living near the New Jersey boardwalk who becomes obsessed with the Bozo, the clown who sits above a tank of water, taunting people until they pay a couple of bucks to try to dunk him. But even as he tries to master the slashing humor of the Bozo, Chad finds he also needs to learn humor's healing power if he is to help his best friend recover from a serious illness. Emotionally rich, filled with fascinating detail about life on the Boardwalk, this is David Lubar's breakthrough novel.

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  • "The summer crowd hasn't quite arrived on the boardwalk in a Jersey shore town when Chad becomes entranced by the Bozo-the clown in the dunk tank-whose voice and comments are as irritating as nails on a chalkboard. It occurs to him that if he can become a Bozo, then he can take out his anger on people who have made him miserable, such as his deadbeat dad and his teachers."
  • "A sizzling young adult novel about Chad, a teenager living near the New Jersey boardwalk who becomes obsessed with the Bozo, the clown who sits above a tank of water, taunting people until they pay a couple of bucks to try to dunk him. But even as he tries to master the slashing humor of the Bozo, Chad finds he also needs to learn humor's healing power if he is to help his best friend recover from a serious illness. Emotionally rich, filled with fascinating detail about life on the Boardwalk, this is David Lubar's breakthrough novel."
  • "A sizzling young adult novel about Chad, a teenager living near the New Jersey boardwalk who becomes obsessed with the Bozo, the clown who sits above a tank of water, taunting people until they pay a couple of bucks to try to dunk him. But even as he tries to master the slashing humor of the Bozo, Chad finds he also needs to learn humor's healing power if he is to help his best friend recover from a serious illness. Emotionally rich, filled with fascinating detail about life on the Boardwalk, this is David Lubar's breakthrough novel."@en
  • "While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away."
  • "While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away."@en
  • ""He's got a voice like a chainsaw, and he uses it to get people so made they'll pay two dollars for the chance to drop him in a tank of slimy water He's the Bozo, and Chad wants his job--wants the chance to sit in a cage where he can shout at the world in safety, with no consequences worse than an occasional dunking."--Container."@en
  • "Chad, hoping to work out his frustrations and his anger by taking a summer job as a dunk tank Bozo, comes to a better understanding of himself and the uses of humor as he undergoes training in the fine art of insults."@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Children's audiobooks"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Young adult works"
  • "Audiobooks"
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  • "Drama"@en
  • "Unabridged audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiocassettes for children"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en

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