Agent: Emily Mitchell, Wernick & Pratt Agency. She currently lives in Tampa, Florida where she is pursuing an MFA in creative writing and trying to get together a weekly Dungeons & Dragons group (which is proving much trickier). DJ is Black other protagonists read as white. Destiny Howell was born in Florida and decided to become a lawyer to learn all the rules before she quit to write novels about clever kids who break them.

Expertly filtering a bevy of familiar heist elements through a middle school lens while maintaining the genre’s spirit and lingo, debut author Howell writes a fast-paced adventure packed with cunning twists. But even after he recruits actor Audrey Valentine and intimidating but soft-spoken Monty LaCroix to round out his new crew, it’ll take every trick in the book to pull off a caper of this caliber. Oceans Eleven meets kids in an arcade is a fantastic premise in and of. To achieve the impossible, DJ goes straight to the source, planning to lift the tickets from the Starcade itself by any means necessary. A high-octane middle grade heist story, High Score is snappy and smart in equal turns. Now, DJ has two weeks to acquire 100,000 tickets, or both he and Conor will be “rocket boosted”-socially disappeared. A student working with electronics Students wearing yellow shirts standing in a line High school graduates throwing their caps into the air Cheerleaders. That is, until his best friend and former partner-in-crime Conor transfers to be with him, and promptly runs afoul of the lottery kingpin who controls the school’s underground economy of Starcade-brand arcade tickets. : High Score (9781338746716) by Howell, Destiny and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. High Score Destiny Howell Scholastic, Incorporated, Juvenile Fiction - 304 pages 0 Reviews For fans of Gordon Korman, Varian Johnson, and Celia Prez, High Score is an.

Months after his last “job” sparked unintended consequences, mastermind DJ, this book’s seventh grader narrator, is lying low at his new school, retired from a life of cons, heists, and schemes.

High Score by Destiny Howell