The Mr. T Experience & King Dork Approximately

From Frank Portman, singer/songwriter and guitarist of the influential punk band The Mr. T Experience and critically acclaimed novelist of King Dork, comes beloved cult classic KING DORK APPROXIMATELY—now in paperback with a new cover!

This new edition includes exclusive access to The Mr. T Experience’s new album with a digital download code, allowing readers to access content before the album is released in January. The Mr. T Experience rose to fame in the 1990s, becoming the unofficial flagship band of Lookout! Records—the same label that launched Green Day—and is now back on tour! The new MTX LP, Kink Dork Approximately: The Album, is inspired by the book.

Time Magazine called book one King Dork “impossibly brilliant”; USA Today observed the novel to be “Loaded with sharp and offbeat humor”; and Entertainment Weekly wrote “No account of high school has made me laugh more than King Dork.”

The Mr. T Experience & King Dork Approximately

King Dork Approximately by Frank Portman
(Website, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads)Published by Random House Children's Books on December 9th 2014
Genres: Boys & Men, Dating & Sex, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Social Themes, Young Adult Fiction
Pages: 384

From Frank Portman comes the long-awaited sequel to the beloved cult classic King Dork, of which John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, said, “Basically, if you are a human being with even a vague grasp of the English language, King Dork will rock your world.”

Aside from the stitches and the head wound, Tom Henderson is the same old King Dork. He's still trying to work out who to blame for the new scar on his forehead, the memory loss, and his father's mysterious death. But illicit female hospital visitations, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Hillmont High sex-pocalypse have made him a new man.

What doesn't make you stronger can kill you, though, and tenth grade, act two, promises to be a killer. Tom's down one bloodstained army coat, one Little Big Tom, and two secret semi-imaginary girlfriends. Now his most deeply held beliefs about alphabetical-order friendship, recycling, school spirit, girls, rock and roll, the stitching on jeans, the Catcher Code, and the structure of the universe are about to explode in his face. If only a female robot's notes could solve the world's problems, he'd have a chance. But how likely is that?

King Dork Approximately--it feels like the first time. Like the very first time.