![]() ![]() ::Raises hand.::) There’s so much that Malone gets right about this fraught age, where the last thing you want is to be the one kid who stands out. (It was also heartbreakingly real for all us girls out there that totally found ourselves in Emily’s shoes at that age. Jeremy’s cluelessness about his friend/neighbor Emily’s crush on him was entirely realistic, and will especially ring true to middle school readers. Jeremy is such a winsome protagonist, and I totally fell for his group of girl friends at St. ![]() Sometimes, you just miss having close friends of both genders!ĭebut author Lee Gjertsen Malone’s novel is just plain fun. Being immersed in a sea of girls is not always easy. Edith’s? Or could this place be where he really belongs?Īs the survivor of an all-girls education (okay, just high school, but still, that was intense!), I totally related to Jeremy. But as he seemingly gets closer to earning an expulsion from his school, Jeremy starts to second-guess his plan. Jeremy’s determined to do something about this situation, and he finds his solution in an unlikely place: a series of escalating pranks that he commits along with one of his best female (well, duh) friends at St. ![]() Edith’s Academy, a fo rmer all-girls school, made an effort to go co-ed, but there’s been a lot of attrition among their boy population and before Jeremy knows it, he’s the last one. No matter where he turns, Jeremy Miner is surrounded by them. ![]()
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