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Shiny Misfits

By: Maysoon Zayid
Narrated by: Maysoon Zayid, Dave Matthews, Vanessa Marcil, Lameece Issaq, Tobias Forrest
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Bay Ann wants to shine.

She's sure her moment in the spotlight has arrived when she wins the school talent show with a showstopping tap routine! But then her classmate and crush, Alyee Maq, causes her to wobble and almost fall. The video of him catching her goes viral, making Alyee an overnight sensation for "helping her." Bay Ann is reduced to her disability and her talent is ignored.

Bay Ann doesn't want her classmate to get all the fame, and she is NOT satisfied being anything but the best. She'll do everything in her power to beat Alyee at his own attention-seeking game. With the help of her two best friends, Michelle and Davey Matt, she'll go up against Alyee and his crew to prove she's number one.

But as Bay Ann tries to find the thing that really makes her stand out, everything she tries goes disastrously wrong. What if the only way to beat her enemy . . . is to join him?

This is a hilarious and one-of-a-kind audiobook about fame, friendship, and fighting to take back your own story.

©2024 Maysoon Zayid (P)2024 Audible, Inc. Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Social & Life Skills Funny Witty

About the Creator and Performer

Maysoon Zayid is a comedian, writer, disability advocate, and tap dancer. She is a graduate of and a Guest Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time on-air contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has most recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey Network's In Deep Shift, 60 Minutes, and CNN.
Maysoon had the most-viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of 2015 by BBC. As a professional comedian, she has performed in top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. Maysoon was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and the Together Live Tour. She limped in New York Fashion Week and is a recipient of the Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan and is a recurring character on the legendary daytime drama General Hospital. In 2019, Maysoon took her talents to audio and created and performed Find Another Dream for Audible.

Vanessa Marcil
Lameece Issaq
Tobias Forrest

About the Performer

Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Marcil is best known for her television roles as "Brenda Barrett" on General Hospital, "Gina Kincaid" on Beverly Hills, 90210, and "Sam Marquez"on Las Vegas. She began her TV career playing high school student "Brenda," but was determined to break the stigma of daytime TV and began to work on other projects including the blockbuster feature film The Rock with Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, and Ed Harris. At the same time, she was recurring on the primetime show High Incident produced by Steven Spielberg and starring in the stage production of Southern Rapture at the Met Theatre opposite Dwight Yoakum and directed by Peter Fonda, receiving rave reviews. Vanessa is based in Los Angeles.

About the Performer

Lameece Issaq is an actor and writer and co-founder/former artistic director of the Obie Award -winning company Noor Theatre. Lameece has narrated over 60 books, including The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, for which she won an Audiofile Earphones Award. She has appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions, including The Fever Chart and Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at the Public Theatre, The Black Eyed at New York Theatre Workshop and Noura at The Old Globe, among several others. She’s written various short plays produced in The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival; as well Noor & Hadi Go to Hogwarts (Theater Breaking Through Barriers, Golden Thread Theater); Orb Weaver (24/6) and Nooha’s List, part of the compilation play, Motherhood Outloud (Hartford Stage, The Geffen and Primary Stages). Her full length play Food and Fadwa (2011 recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award) premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in a production she co-produced and starred in, and in which Variety magazine praised her performance as "stunning." Food and Fadwa was a part of the Arab Voices Festival in both Abu Dhabi and Beirut and was published in the anthology "Contemporary Plays By Women of Color," second edition. She co-wrote the feature film Abe, directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She starred in her most recent play, A Good Day to Me, Not to You, which premiered off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater in 2023 and was produced by Waterwell and Plate Spinner Productions. The play was developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Noor Theatre, and Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights Festival. Lameece is a member of AEA and SAG AFTRA. 2016 NYFA Finalist in Playwriting/Screenwriting. www.lameeceissaq.com

About the Performer

Tobias Forrest is an actor, writer, singer and VO performer who is also a quadriplegic. His credits include How to Get Away With Murder, Queen Sugar, Good Trouble, Special Unit, Wisdom of the Crowd, The Sessions, Weeds, Coffee Wars, Daruma and more. Tobias has also starred onstage in Cost of Living, Colossal, Pyretown and other plays. In addition, he sang in the Oscars choir and for the band Cityzen, plus his songs have been placed in film and television. Tobias narrated the audiobook The First Thing About You and has performed audio description and voice-over for several other projects.

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This book captivates both the young and adults alike! My daughter couldn't put it down, and now I understand why. It's witty, heartwarming, and incredibly entertaining. Bay Ann's enthusiasm and insecurities are endearing, and Maysoon's narration brings the story to life. Dave Mathews as her cat is the icing on the cake! Don't miss out on this gem! —L

Witty, heartwarming and very entertaining!

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This is a book you DO NOT WANT TO MISS. An incredible and adorable story about one girl’s impressive drive and determination to make her dreams come true, and that success is never worth hurting the people you care about.

Bay Ann is a refreshing and beautifully honest protagonist who refuses to be reduced to her disability or other people’s assumptions of her. She stands up herself and fights to take back her story, and like any middle grade kid would she makes plenty of mistakes along the way and learns all the valuable lessons that go with it.

This book will fill your hearts and expand your world. Plus, thanks to having a veteran comedian Maysoon Zayid as the author, you will be laughing out loud from beginning to end.

Did I mention the colors and illustrations are gorgeous? My fellow neurodivergent friends, these colors will calm and tickle your brain!

HILARIOUS AND HEARTFELT + the Dave Mathews

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