Dumped!: Fun & Games Activity Book Featuring Word Scrambles, Connect-the-Dots, and in-depth Psychiatric Analysis for the Unexpectedly Single

By Josh Lewis

Who hasn’t been on the receiving end of one of these gems: “I think maybe we should see other people.” Or, “It’s not you; it’s me.” What about the mother of all breakup lines, “I think we should just be friends”? Finally, the recently dumped have somewhere to turn thanks to the offbeat, write-in therapy of this book. Dynamic - and satiric - author, actor, and director Josh Lewis introduces Sam and Samantha, two desperate dumpees looking to find their way away from their exes - and back into the land of the living and dating! Then, it’s up to you to help the two scorned lovers weed through a jungle of post-breakup mazes, word searches, crosswords, and more. Featuring a stiff dose of sarcasm and humor, chased by a shot of bitterness, this book promises to get any sorry Sam or sad-faced Samantha out of the dumps and back into the game (. . . so they can do it all over again.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Nov 17, 2008
• ISBN: 9781440515149

Josh Lewis

Josh Lewis is an illustrator, designer, and art director for the children's market. Josh creates fun and approachable art that inspires learning. He has worked for clients like Highlights For Children, Ask! magazine, Orion Telescopes and Binoculars, Compassion International, and Tyndale House Publishers, and David C Cook .

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DUMPED!

FUN AND GAMES

ACTIVITY

BOOK

Featuring

Word Scrambles,

Connect-the-Dots, and

In-Depth Psychiatric

Analysis for the

Unexpectedly single

Josh Lewis

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Copyright © 2009 by Josh Lewis

All rights reserved.

This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher; exceptions are made for brief excerpts used in published reviews.

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ISBN 10: 1-59869-562-2

ISBN 13: 978-1-59869-562-5

eISBN: 978-1-44051-514-9

Printed in the United States of America.

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Interior illustration copyright © Temah Nelson.

This book is available at quantity discounts for bulk purchases. For information, please call 1-800-289-0963.

Additional Interior Illustration Credits:

Sunrise, © iStockphoto/Lucía d Salterain

Breakdance, © iStockphoto/4x6

Hurdle, © iStockphoto/blackred

Coffee, © iStockphoto/Zachary Gray

Owl, © iStockphoto/maureenpr

Snake, © iStockphoto/Heather Wallace

Capsule pills, © iStockphoto/Miguel Angel Salinas Salinas

Lei, © iStockphoto/Le Do

Knot, © iStockphoto/Yunus Arakon

Box, © iStockphoto/arcticflea

Calendar, © iStockphoto/budzik

Bee, © iStockphoto/Steven Foley

Nuts and bolts, © iStockphoto/Dario Sabljak

Man, © iStockphoto/Alexander Briel Perez

Icicle, © iStockphoto/Li Kim Goh

Laying person, © iStockphoto/chuwy

Pig, © iStockphoto/id-workqBasket, © iStockphoto/Kathy Konkle

Child, © iStockphoto/Pavel Losevsky

Heart, © iStockphoto/Diego Vargas

Head, © iStockphoto/Jesus Conde

Suitcase, © iStockphoto/Jennifer Borton

Garbage can, © iStockphoto/James Steidl

Treasure chest, © iStockphoto/Jonathan Moon

Swirl, © iStockphoto/Hugo Lacasse

Beet, © iStockphoto/Kathy Konkle

Justice, © iStockphoto/4x6

Ear, © iStockphoto/Aliaksandr Kakouka

Swing, © iStockphoto/Yale Bernstein

Pills, © iStockphoto/Joachim Angeltun

Tear, © iStockphoto/Ryan Burke

Post-it, © iStockphoto/Sándor F. Szabó

Diamond, © iStockphoto/Mitja Bezenšek

Samantha’s Story

Mixed Emotions

International Relations

Breakup Breakdown

State of the Disunion Address

Checkered Past

Scenarios

Going Up?: Volume 1

Some Kind of Dink!: The Ol’ Switcheroo

Attract Fun

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Yes, You Did!

Breakout

Ass Wackbards!

Pissed-Off Word Search

The Talk of Shame

Change Machine

Homophonia

Add-Mitting It Was a Mistake

The Right Words at the Right Time

Value Balls

Last Things First!

The Cocksucker Crutch: An In-Depth Look

Cross Check!

Dumped Delectables

The Fact of the Matter

Samantha’s Breakup-Joke Corner

Going Up?: Volume 2

Conjugate This!!!

Three Strikes, You’re Out

Heart of Glass!

Going Pro

Web of Lies

Baby Steps

Boxing Match!

Spell It Out!

Fact or Friction

Are You High?

Got a Nice Ing to It

Wisdom of the Ages

Rhymes and Reasons

Dear John Letters

The Difference Between GOOD and POO

Ass + Hole =

Going Up?: Volume 3

Blessings in Disguise

Drastic Times . . .

Whet Thu Fack?!!

Workin’ It Out!

hbaeasrtlteasds ( heartless bastard )

Big, Less Big, and Put Down the Crack Pipe

What 2 Do

Going Up?: Volume 4

Me Loves He, Me Loves He Not

Runaway Bride smaid

Open Heart, Tongue Tied

Sam’s Story

Reeling & Dealing: Dumped Word Scramble

Search Party!

Return Policy

Choose Your Words!

The One

See-Ya-Later-Gram

The Ex Factor

Is It Over for Good?

Garbage Day: Take 1

Over Lap

Excess Baggage!

No Excess Baggage!

Digging for Buried Pleasure

Spin Doctor

Hang Up, Man!

Time for everyone’s favorite gloomy game show—Wheel of Misfortune

Star-Crossed Lovers

I Cried to Smell Few I Tried to Tell You

Up End

Finger-Lickin’ Blues

Selective Memory

Card Hearted

You Say Tomato, I Say You Broke My Fucking Heart

Prior-a-Tease

Garbage Day: Take 2

The Heart of the Matter

The Color of Sanity

Really, Really Madlibs

Upward to Thine Arse

Celebrity Ex Tape

Symbolic Gesture

Letter Speak

The Tree of Strife

Time for another round of everyone’s favorite gloomy game show— Wheel of Misfortune

Piec Ing It To Ge Ther

Dumped Through the Ages

Ball Bearings

Stealth Help

Grid Locked

Do the Math

Swetchang Tiems

Booty Stall

Diamante Ring

Garbage Day: Take 3

Time Flies

Towing the Lines

Time for the final round of everyone’s favorite gloomy game show— Wheel of Misfortune

Dumpedku

Dumper’s Dialect

Wedding Your Pants

Open Heart, Tongue Tied

Bam!

The Connection

Answers to Word Searches and Mazes

Samantha’s Story

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This is

Samantha.

Samantha just got dumped.

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Will you help coax Samantha out of her dark and scary cave of despair and stand by her as she journeys towards the exhilarating and empowering highway of sanity?

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Time’s a wastin’!

Let’s begin.

Mixed Emotions

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For Samantha, being involved with her ex has always involved a wide variety of emotions. Even though they’re not together anymore, Samantha’s emotions are still just as jumbled up as ever.

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Help Samantha sort out her emotions while she makes herself an extra-thick chocolate shake. Take the letters from the blender and place them in front of the appropriate words.

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International Relations

An important thing for Samantha to understand is that she’s not alone. People all over the world go through breakups every day. Below are ten people from all around the world who’ve been dumped. Help Samantha match up the dumped people with their countries of origin from the globe below.