02385cam a2200337 i 4500 888031203 TxAuBib 20230708120000.0 230424s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023015998 9780062986030 hardcover 0062986031 hardcover TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Anderson, John David, 1975-, author. The greatest kid in the world / John David Anderson. First edition. New York, NY : Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 357 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the beloved author of Posted comes the story of Zeke Stahls -- a thoroughly average twelve-year-old who somehow finds himself in a competition to be named the World's Greatest Kid. Zeke Stahls is not the best kid in the world. Some days he struggles just to be good. He'd rather be pulling pranks than doing extra credit, and he's too busy performing experiments on his little brother, Nate, or tormenting his older sister, Jackie, to volunteer for charity. Which is why Zeke and his entire family are shocked when they receive word that he has been selected as a contestant in an online competition to find the World's Greatest Kid. Zeke has no idea how he was chosen for this, and he knows that measuring up to the other nominees--a saintly lineup of selfless, charming and talented do-gooders with photogenic smiles and hearts of gold--is hopeless. Still, with a $10,000 cash prize on the line, and Zeke's mom struggling to hold the family together on her single-parent salary, he decides to give it his best shot. As Zeke concocts various plots to show the world just how "great" he is, however, he finds himself wondering what that word even means, and who gets to decide. And what kind of kid he wants--and needs--to be. Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 13 519691. 20230708. Contests Juvenile fiction. Family life Juvenile fiction. Single-parent families Juvenile fiction. Humorous fiction. Fiction. TXKPL