Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his.

It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. He will compete against Cathryn Constable. A stunning middle-grade debut-full of heart, humor, and nonstop action. I learned a lot from him about comedy writing and public service - and I somehow got an Emmy nomination out of it, for helping write his segments with Arianna Huffington that aired on Comedy Central’s Politically Incorrect during the 1996 political conventions. Geoff Rodkey, whose films include Daddy Day Care, has been nominated in the 5-12-year-old category for his debut novel, Deadweather and Sunrise.

The book spent 7 weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list, and I spent the next two years helping Al with whatever he was doing. I wound up writing postcards to all of these people that began, “Dear _: Al Franken has requested that I write to inform you I am not dead.” and was an Amazon, Chicago Public Library, and Bank Street Center. Not every reader got the joke, and a handful of them were upset enough to write letters to Al condemning him for allowing me to die. The first book in the series, Deadweather and Sunrise, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in the U.K. health care system, my character dies of an easily treatable disease because Al isn’t required to provide his employees with health insurance. A stunning middle-grade debut-full of heart, humor, and nonstop action Its tough to be thirteen, especially when somebodys trying to kill you. 4.6 19 Ratings 6.99 6.99 Publisher Description. He also wrote me into the book as a semi-fictional character, “Geoff the research assistant” - and in one chapter, as part of a larger point Al was making about the inequities in the U.S. Deadweather and Sunrise The Chronicles of Egg, Book 1. In 1995, Al Franken hired me to help him research RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT (AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS). Written by Geoff Rodkey Egbert lives on an ugly fruit plantation on Deadweather Island with his strict, quiet father and horrible older brother and sister.

Deadweather and sunrise by geoff rodkey