Who is Benny Wellander? His classmates see him as the weird epileptic kid who has seizures and throws up all the time, the one who fails at everything he tries and doesn’t have any friends. His mother sees him as her baby and wants to protect and coddle him at any cost. Meanwhile, his father tries not to see him at all, preferring to hold himself aloof from a boy who is the total antithesis of everything he ever wanted in a son. Surrounded by so much confusion, how does Benny see himself? Is he defined by his illness and the resulting damage to his brain? Is he just rubbish at everything he does? Is he even worth loving? What will it take for him to come out of his prison of fear and insecurity and begin exploring who he was truly made to be?

Benny wants to play pirates without his little sister Penny, and so he tries to get rid of her, but when Penny really disappears, Benny is worried.

Life is a battle. In the battlefor life, Bennywas just another combatant, but his battles were, particularly, fierce. This is a deeply disturbing,story of an innocent soul caught in the hellish grip of psychopathic and twisted evil. In the battle for life, Benny should have received the Purple Heart.

Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern's powerful and heartwarming middle grade novel will appeal to readers who loved R. J. Palacio's Wonder, Holly Sloan's Counting by 7s, and Lynda Mullaly Hunt's Fish in a Tree. "This brave story, told with wry humor, is inspirational," raved Ann M. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Rain Reign. Fourth grade is not going at all how Benny Barrows hoped. He hasn't found a new best friend. He's still not a great bike rider—even though his brother George, who's autistic, can do tricks. And worst of all, he worries his dad's recent accident might be all his fault. Benny tries to take his mom's advice and focus on helping others, and to take things one step at a time. But when his dad ends up in the hospital again, Benny doesn't know how he and his family will overcome all the bad luck that life seems to have thrown their way. Just My Luck is a deeply moving and rewarding novel about a down-on-his-luck boy whose caring heart ultimately helps him find the strength to cope with tragedy and realize how much he truly has to offer his friends and family.

Sequel to the No. 1 Bestseller Benny & Omar Benny, the sports-mad, carefree lad whose adventures in Tunisia have convinced him that he can take on the world, suffers a severe blow to his pride when he meets Babe. He may be a wise guy, but she is at least three steps ahead of him. And he's on her territory. Benny is visiting his grandfather in the country for the summer holidays and finds his position as a 'townie' make him the object of much teasing by the natives. Babe is the village tomboy, given serious respect by the all the local tough guys. She runs a thriving business, rescuing the lost lures and flies of visiting fishermen and selling them at a tidy profit. Babe just might consider Benny as her business partner. But things become very complicated, and dangerous, when Furty Howlin also wants a slice of the action. And that's not the only problem for Benny. A disco reveals a transformed Babe– can they still be friends now that she is a real girl? Benny and Babe was shortlisted for the Reading Association of Ireland Award 2001.

"Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrepreneur, becoming one of the pioneering "showrunners" combining producer, writer and performer into one job. His modern style of radio humor eschewed stale jokes in favor informal repartee with comic hecklers like his valet Rochester (played by Eddie Anderson) and Mary Livingstone his offstage wife. These quirky characters bouncing off each other in humorous situations created the situation comedy. In this career study, we learn how Jack Benny found ingenious ways to sell his sponsors' products in comic commercials beloved by listeners, and how he dealt with the challenges of race relations, rigid gender ideals and an insurgent new media industry (TV). Jack Benny created classic comedy for a rapidly changing American culture, providing laughter that buoyed radio listeners from 1932's depths of the Great Depression, through World War II to the mid-1950s"--Provided by publisher.

Benny's involved with the wrong man. Ike is sure he can change that, if only he can get out of the friend zone ... Benedetta Russo's had a run of bad luck in love, in her career, and now in her family life. It's hard enough that she's mired in a relationship with a man who doesn't deserve her, but a recent discovery has her questioning all she thought she knew about her parents' marriage. When an incident with an endangered fish brings Benny into YouTube star Ike Fitzgerald's life, he quickly begins to think of her as a friend—and then more than a friend. He's sure that together, they'll be able to tackle the challenges facing both of them—if only he can convince her that love doesn't necessarily equal pain, disappointment, and disaster. Loving Benny is the fourth book in Linda Seed's Russo Sisters series, but it can also be enjoyed as a stand-alone romance.