Also Known as Elvis

James Howe

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781442445116
• eBook ISBN: 9781442445123

Skeezie Tookis has a life-changing summer in this fourth book of the funny, heartfelt, and beloved Misfits series by Bunnicula author James Howe. I started wearing my dad's leather jacket that he left hanging in the closet. I nabbed it right before my mom was going to toss it in the trash. She hated that I wore that jacket, but it's what I have left of my dad. Skeezie—also known as Elvis for the black leather jacket that he never takes off—isn't looking forward to the summer after seventh grade. While his best friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie have exciting adventures, he's stuck babysitting his sisters and working at the Candy Kitchen. True, he gets to hang out with the awesome Steffi, but he still has to contend with his maybe-crush on hot-and-cold Becca and Kevin Hennessey's never-ending bullying. When his dad suddenly reappears, it's another sign that this will be the worst summer ever.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• 1. FORUM: “What I’ll Be Doing on My Summer Vacation”
• 2. When Your Dad Leaves, Part of Your Mom Leaves, Too
• 3. Nails Sticking Out of the Walls Where My Dad Used to Be
• 4. How I Find My Summer Job
• 5. Look What the Cat Dragged In
• 6. Frosty Goodness Gets Stuck in My Throat
• 7. Time Warp Meets “Do I Know You”
• 8. The Half-True Story of Penny the Dog
• 9. All Shook Up
• 10. Total Mess-up Loser
• 11. Baby
• 12. How My Mother Feels About Garlic Knots
• 13. The Skeezie-Steffi Dialogues: Rain
• 14. Not a Victoria’s Secret Tennis Ball
• 15. Betty & Pauls
• 16. I Saw a Therapist Once for About Ten Minutes
• 17. The Talk
• 18. Can’t Help Falling in Love
• 19. The Skeezie-Steffi Dialogues: Dads
• 20. If I Live to Be a Hundred, I Want to Be Mrs. Miller
• 21. Surprises Come Flying Faster Than Twizzlers
• 22. Fifteen Minutes
• 23. Confusion Balls Exploding
• 24. Not Like It Was Going to Happen Anyway
• 25. Top Ten Reasons
• 26. The Rest of the Conversation
• 27. Skeezie’s Super-Duper Franks ’n’ Beans
• 28. The Night Before the Longest Day
• 29. The Skeezie-Steffi Dialogues: The Future
• 30. All the Friends Are Reunited
• 31. And the Winner of the Worst Person in the World Award Goes to . . .
• 32. The Empty Place
• 33. Halfway to Syracuse and Gerri’s Making Lasagna
• 34. Roses, of Course, and Lilies
• 35. FORUM: “The Importance of Fries”
• Reading Group Guide
• ‘The Misfits’ Teaser
• About the Author
• Copyright