Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink
Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink (The Professionals)
Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink
Greg Horn, Glenn Fabry, MAC
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Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fiction
  • Mystery

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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This mystery novel by MAC is about Anna Smudge, a junior high schooler . Anna has always been slow, but not stupid. She simply likes to take her time with things, so when her new guidance counselor gives her the idea of becoming a professional shrink, she tries on the idea before jumping at it. When her enemy, the school bully, Jacob Pierce, scatters her fancy, handmade business cards all around town, she has people with "issues" calling her at all hours with their problems, and to top it all off, one of her patients is an escaped hit-man for the infamous Mr.

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