Sixteen-year-old Kat, whose mother is a home-birth midwife, feels betrayed when a popular, beautiful classmate gets pregnant and forms a bond with Kat's mother that Kat herself never had.
A handbook for youngsters that includes such instructions as "pour your monster a nice big glass of healthy, crunchy, oozy bug juice slimed with ooey-gooey snail trails to calm him.".
A handbook for youngsters that includes such instructions as "pour your monster a nice big glass of healthy, crunchy, oozy bug juice slimed with ooey-gooey snail trails to calm him.".
Hilarious and poignant, this is the story of one girl's sometimes funny, sometimes painful path to self-acceptance and to finding her place in the world.
Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.
(to find out how I survived seventh grade) : a novel
Vega, Denise
2005
Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.
Computer whiz Erin Swift starts eighth grade full of optimism, but the new school year brings a whole new set of problems, and it takes a personal tragedy to give her some perspective and help her get back on track.
