The Naperville White House: How One Man's Fantasy Changed Government's Reality

by Jerome Bartels

Overview

Not just the United States, but the entire world, remembers that fateful November day back in 2018 when Al Qaeda terrorists held the entire nation hostage in exchange for the public disclosure of an anti-terrorist bio-weapon that may not have even existed. In that darkest hour, salvation came not from the United States government, but from fantasy government, a cabinet of independent thinkers and gamers from Naperville, Illinois, led by insurance adjustor and President Jay Weise. Now, thanks to the tireless efforts of crusading vagabond journalist, former White House press secretary, and part-time Radio Shack employee Jerome Bartels, here for the first time is the true story of the Stockdale Hostage Crisis from the people who lived it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781890862916
Publisher:	Bancroft Press
Publication date:	12/31/2010
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jonathon Scott Fuqua is the award winning author of three much lauded, award-winning young adult novels, The Reappearance of Sam Webber (ALA Alex Award, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Booklist Editor's Choice, and more) and DARBY (Oppenhiem Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, Book Sense Top 5, Mark Twain Award finalist, and more), and The Willoughby Spit Wonder (“It is the kind of novel, by turns comical, haunting, and thrilling, that comes only once in a blue moon” The Boston Globe). For teenagers and adults, he has written a "groundbreaking" graphic novel, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, which was nominated by YALSA as a Popular Paperback for Young Adults (2005). And for young children he has penned Catie & Josephine (a Washington Post Book of the Week) an innovative graphic/chapter book that might be the first of its kind. In the Wake of the Boatman, his latest novel, came out in December 2008. All of his published books are available nationally and internationally.

Editorial Reviews

"A white 11-year-old becomes fast friends with a black janitor and learns about racism, loss, grief, forgiveness and the landscape of Baltimore in this heartfelt debut. Fuqua has a sensitive understanding of the shaky emotional terrain of preadolescence, and he displays a good ear for dialogue and an intimate feel for Baltimore's rowhouses, creaky buses, and broad sidewalks."

Publishers Weekly

"In a style somewhat reminiscent of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird or Olive Ann Burns's Cold Sassy Tree, a slightly older Sam relates the events of a watershed year in his life . . . Sam is a realistic, vivid character . . . he is often frightened, confused, and lonely. He learns, however, that family doesn't have to be composed of blood relatives, that love comes in various colors and sizes, and what seems to be the worst of circumstances can actually turn out to be a blessing."

School Library Journal

"A year in the life of a Baltimore boy provides the basis for a formidable portrait of urban American life . . . A warming exploration."

Kirkus Reviews

“The gentle and sensitively told story of Sam, who longs for a father who suddenly and inexplicably left the family. Sam staggers under the burdens of uncertainty and fear as he and his mother are forced to live in reduced circumstances in a lower socio-economic neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. This paean to Baltimore is also a beautifully told bildungsroman; Fuqua pours his love for the old city into a carefully crafted and multilayered story. No library should be without it."

VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

"There's a strong sense of place in this ultimately warm, reassuring novel set in a poor, racially tense Baltimore neighborhood. Themes of racism, urban violence, depression, and family structure threaded through the story make the book effective for discussion as well as for independent reading." (ON NAMING THE REAPPEARANCE OF SAM WEBBER AN ALEX AWARD-WINNER)

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