
I’ve played that song seventeen gazillion times, give or take, so I play it really well. My audition was playing “Song for My Father” on the piano. I’m basically the clown kid, because I faked my way in.

Though probably there are no clown kids.Įxcept me.

On your instrument if you’re a music kid, and in your ballet shoes or your clown suit or with your paintings if you’re a dance kid or a clown kid or an art kid or whatever. It’s a school for gifted kids: you have to take a test to get in AND do an audition. Tomorrow is my first day of sixth grade, at Music and Art Academy. Well, my plan of hoping that summer would never end and school would never start has failed. You plus Jake would make a Tremendous Triangle of Trouble. I dedicate this story to all those on the beautiful journey of self-discovery. Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. | New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, | Series: Jake the fake 1 | Summary: Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.

Title: Jake the fake keeps it real / Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach illustrations by Keith Knight.ĭescription: First edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Published in the United States by Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.Ĭrown and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.Įducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at

Text copyright © 2017 by Craig Robinson and Adam MansbachĬover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2017 by Keith KnightĪll rights reserved. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously.
