MILO

MILO is the funny and poignant story, told through text and cartoons, of a 13-year-old boy's struggle to come to terms with the loss that hit the reset button on his life.

Loveable geek Milo Cruikshank finds reasons for frustration at every turn, like people who carve Halloween pumpkins way too soon (the pumpkins just rot and get lopsided) or the fact that the girl of his dreams, Summer, barely acknowledges his existence while next-door neighbor Hilary won't leave him alone. The truth is that ever since Milo's mother died nothing has gone right. Now, instead of the kitchen being full of music, his whole house has been filled with Fog.

Nothing's the same. Not his Dad. Not his sister. And definitely not him. In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, Milo copes with being the new kid (again) as he struggles to survive a school year that is filled with reminders of what his life "used to be."

Alan Silberberg is a children's TV/film writer with an M.A. from the Harvard School of Education. He was the 2008 James Thurber Children's Author in Residence. Alan has written for Nickelodeon, the Kids WB Network, PBS, the Disney Channel, Fox Television, Sony Entertainment, Buena Vista Entertainment, and Scholastic Films. He earned a B.A. in "Cartoon Communication Education" (a major he created) from the University of Massachusetts. His first book, POND SCUM, was published by Hyperion in 2005.