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Mutually Assured Detention

By: Scott McCormick
Narrated by: Qamar Yochanan, full cast
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Publisher's summary

War may be hell, but prank wars are hell-arious.

Seventh-grader Jordan Bryant is desperate for a scoop for his year-end ELA project. When the vice principal gets glitter-bombed in front of the whole class—and the wrong student punished for the prank—Jordan thinks he’s found the perfect story. Instead, he finds himself swept up in the biggest thing to ever hit Murray Middle: the Great Prank War. As the pranks get evermore epic and insane, so do the punishments handed down by the draconian administration. Can Jordan and his wacky friends figure out who’s responsible for causing the school-wide mayhem without getting into trouble themselves? More importantly: Can they stop the madness before the trigger-happy vice principal cancels the dance?

Mutually Assured Detention is a raucous, laugh-out-loud tale of friendship and pandemonium by the author of The Dragon Squisher and Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World

Cast:

  • Qamar Yochanan
  • Elizabeth Evans
  • Paul Castro, Jr.
  • Maxwell Glick
  • Lianna Liew
  • Pamela Almand
  • Gregory Connors
  • Ann Osmond
  • Madeleine Hernandez
  • Cary Hite
  • Margaret Ying Drake
  • Michael Crouch
  • Fajer Al-Kaisi
  • Feodor Chin
  • Kathy Searle
  • Jimmy Berry
  • JB Chen
  • Jamie Zubairi
  • Bilaal Avaz
  • Judy Lee
  • Sanjiv Jhaveri
©2021 Scott McCormick (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.

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Kids are misunderstood sometimes

This was a story that became more enjoyable as it went on. At first, each new prank seemed to muddy the waters. The school administration launched an investigation (as they would be required to do), but they weren't very careful about who they punished. The student narrator launched his own search, but he was careful about other students' secrets and rights; he didn't want to be unfair, even to people he didn't much like.

For me the last scene was the most memorable and very satisfying.

Mild spoiler alert:

The central character is trans. (The listener finds this out right away.) This had an affect on how some of the adults in the story treated him and how we perceived those adults. It was more than a few sentences in the story, but among the students in the story, this gender identity was pretty much a non-issue.

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please someday answer me

why do people think Jordan is trans if you are going to answer me call me Jay. anyways I really love this audio book.

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Love it

I am a kid and I am very bored so this is just so fun and I really recommend it. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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I almost lost interest - ALMOST!

Granted, this is a middle grade book, but I found there was a moment where the story dragged for me. But then it picked up and I can honestly say I liked the ending.

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Love the slang

I love the slang and the diversity with LGBTQ! Grate book would read again! Byeeeeeeee

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A great book for kids

as an 11 year old boy this was the perfect book. with the perfect amount of funny, sorcastic and adventure

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fun and thoughtful book

I listen to this with my 8-year-old and he loved it. while it deals with some real world issues it does so thoughtfully and in a way that never seemed inappropriate or took away from the mystery in the story

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Loved the storyline

The story is funny and entertaining… I most definitely would definitely listen to this again

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Meh

Goes ejemsv to the park and then we park at park or we could hang around for

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Delightful

Funny and engaging—brings me back to some of the best times of my own school days. Kudos to the writers and performers!

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