Publisher Description
"What if Louis Sachar’s Wayside School were a little less wacky – but just as funny – and centered on a young Black boy who IS going to be the great inventor of all time, and set in the top STEM middle school in the country, oh and it was written by someone who worked for years in independent schools, and it also tackles what it’s like to live in a blended family and to stand up to a parent who’s not being so great and to truly work together with your peers? It might look a little like J.E. Thomas’s Control Freaks :) Benjamin Banneker STEM Academy is the top middle school in Denver. Let’s just say the kids are . . . competitive. When Principal Yee announces the start of an epic Team Competition for the school, Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows that trophy’s got his name on it. That’ll show his sports-obsessed Dad that he’s worthy, right? Only problem is, it’s a TEAM competition … and Doug isn’t so great working in a team environment (except with his best friend Huey, of course). Control Freaks is a clever send-up of school – and a genuine portrait of a kid and family – that kids across the country will see themselves and find joy and connection in."
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About the Narrators
Brian Nishii is a voice talent and award-winning audiobook narrator.
Maxwell Glick is
an actor based in Los Angeles. He has appeared on television in guest roles in
numerous shows such as The Office and
Castle. He also has voiced numerous
commercials, audiobooks, and cartoons. Originally a regional theater actor,
Glick has played Arpad in She Loves Me,
Matt in The Fantasticks, and Eugene
in Brighton Beach Memoirs. A New York
native, he is a graduate of Boston College.
Imani Parks is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning narrator.
Ruffin Prentiss is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.
James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.