The Water Fight Professional

By Angela Ruth Strong

Description:

I, Joey Michaels, am the Water Fight Professional. Basically this means that customers pay me to soak other people. But my super-competitive best friend is sucking all the fun out of summer. All because I made a secret bet with him. Winning the bet wouldn't be so hard if I didn't have the following three problems: 1) My dramatic mother who feels the need to schedule every moment of summer 2) A surfer-dude mailman who can't keep deliveries straight 3) The annoying neighbor girl who all my friends have a crush on If I lose ... ugh, I can't even tell you what I'd have to do. I'd rather lick a slug!

Book Takeaway:

Be yourself. And be a good friend. Relationships might not go the way you expect them to, but everything can still work out.

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Why the author wrote this book:

At a church picnic, my preschooler wanted to get involved with the water fight the older kids were having but didn't know how. I gave him a cup of water and told him to dump it on someone. That person saw him coming and offered him a dollar to dump the same cup on me. I got wet, he got paid, and he fell asleep that night holding onto the dollar. I thought, "He's going to become a water fight professional now," and the idea stuck. The story was first sold in a short story anthology then reprinted in over half a million school tests in New York. I'm so excited that the short story has now become a whole series that will appeal to middle-grade Christian boys!