7 Ate 9 The Untold Story By Tara Lazar & Ross Macdonald

Blog & website of children's book author Tara Lazar 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story by Tara Lazar & Ross  MacDonald Winner of the 2018 Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature and the SCBWI Crystal Kite!                   6 has a problem. Everyone knows that 7 is always after him. Word on the street is that 7 ate 9. If that’s true, 6’s days are numbered. Lucky for him, Private I is on the case. But the facts just don’t add up. It’s odd. Will Private I put two and two together and solve the problem . . . or is 6 next in line to be subtracted? ~ Winner, Irma S. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature ~ Winner, SCBWI Crystal Kite, Atlantic Region ~ Junior Library Guild Selection ~ Summer 2017 Kids’ Indie Next List Selection “An A-1  purchase for anyone who loves plays on words, mysteries, and humorous stories.” ~ Starred Review, School Library Journal “Pun fun reigns over this fast-paced whodunit.  Counting has never been so mysterious or so much fun.” ~ Kirkus Reviews “The newly numerate [will] find the goings-on hilarious. You can count on it.” ~ The Horn Book “The solution to the mystery is pretty clever, the pace is brisk, and the arithmetic jokes approach infinity. Lazar’s numbers game stands up to repeat readalouds.” ~ Publisher’s Weekly “One of the wittiest picture books I’ve encountered in years and with the multiple levels of humor, 7 Ate 9 is sure to delight adults just as much as the kids they read it to!” ~ Ann Childs for the American Booksellers Association (ABA)   Tips for using 7 ATE 9 in the classroom at Jacqueline Jules’ Pencil Tips.