{"product_id":"sawyer-lee-and-the-quest-to-just-stay-home-9780374393496","title":"Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home [Weinersmith, Zach]","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eZach Weinersmith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Hugo Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-winning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Zach Weinersmith comes a cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel starring a ferociously inactive kid who is dragged against his will into the madcap adventures of his friends and family.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEleven-year-old Sawyer Lee descends from an endless lineage of absolute go-getters: astronauts, scientists, champion athletes, spies, and other assorted people of action. To this heritage, he says \"thanks, but no.\" His life's goal, if we must use that word, is to spend his days on his best friend Gary's couch, with roughly the ambition of a barnacle with the flu. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe problem is that Sawyer lives in the town of Ovelaville, where everybody (including his aunt Celia and other best friend Angela) is obsessed with doing whatever it takes to win the grand prize at the annual gourd festival, celebrating nature's dullest vegetable. As their schemes for total gourd domination grow, Sawyer is, to his horror, caught up in both an adventure \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003ea mystery. And he knows it will take a regrettable amount of energy either to get to the bottom of things or convince everyone to give up on it, and find the way back to his happy place on Gary's couch, with a cozy throw blanket, a steaming mug of chamomile tea, and an empty schedule. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this tale of friendship, love, betrayal, madness, and gardening enthusiasm, acclaimed cartoonist Zach Weinersmith introduces a hero who, as a general matter, would \u003ci\u003erather not\u003c\/i\u003e. In that spirit, he has reduced the total number of words by providing over a hundred hilarious cartoons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Macmillan Publishers (MPS)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.06oz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374393496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZach Weinersmith\u003c\/b\u003e is the Hugo Award-winning, Eisner Award-nominated author of the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eBea Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the creator of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He co-authored the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling pop-sci books \u003ci\u003eSoonish\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA City on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e, and illustrated the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling graphic novel \u003ci\u003eOpen Borders\u003c\/i\u003e. He once took third place in the 1989 junior seed-spitting competition of the Luling Watermelon Thump. Today, he lives somewhere in Virginia with his wife, two kids, five goats, two sheep, three dogs, and approximately two cats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers (MPS)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45018488406192,"sku":"9780374393496b","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2341\/9361\/files\/img_b75dccd2-9baa-4159-bef7-0269e2573481.jpg?v=1773966592","url":"https:\/\/pandemoniumbooks.com\/products\/sawyer-lee-and-the-quest-to-just-stay-home-9780374393496","provider":"Pandemonium Books and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}