Creator of the popular comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” Stephan Pastis is also the author of multiple books, including the bestselling middle-grade graphic-novel series Timmy Failure and Trubble Town. His new standalone middle-grade book is Looking Up, which Kirkus calls a “deceptively simple first-person account with humor, puns, turns, and twists — and the final twist gives this friendship tale its surprising depth.” Pastis discussed Looking Up with Stephen Usery in October.

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