This school-based boy friendship story is “funny, fast-paced, and quite poignant” (R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder).Sam Lewis is going to get his butt kicked in exactly thirty-three minutes. He knows this because yesterday his former best friend Morgan Sturtz told him, to his face and with three witnesses nearby, “I am totally going to kick your butt tomorrow at recess.”
All that’s standing between Sam and this unfortunate butt-kicking is the last few minutes of social studies and his lunch period. But how did Sam and Morgan end up here? How did this happen just a few months after TAMADE (The Absolutely Most Amazing Day Ever), when they became the greatest
Alien Wars video game team in the history of great
Alien Wars teams? And once the clock ticks down, will Morgan actually act on his threat?
Told with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and achingly real emotional truth,
33 Minutes shows how even the best of friendships can change forever.
An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown as Sam's former best friendNnow a popular athleteNpromises to beat Sam up at recess in exactly 33 minutes.
"
33 Minutes is clever and true." --
Amy Ignatow, author of
The Popularity Papers