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So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld

Hunter Braque hunts Manhattan as a Trend Spotter, scouring for what's "cool," reporting back to focus groups for "The Client" (as in the massive, shoe franchise named after a Greek goddess with a four-letter name), and discovering local Innovators (the guys and gals on the top of the Cool Pyramid).

But when Hunter meets Jen, an Innovator seemingly missing any sort of risk-assessment or self-preservation instinct, his life gets turned upside-down. Within 48-hours, his boss (and his cell phone) go(es) missing, he is breaking and entering, riding in a stolen car, getting chased by suspicious individuals, charging over $2,000 on his credit card, and bleaching his hair...all in the search for the perfect, coolest pair of shoes...ever!

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Perfect by Natasha Friend

This book is about a 13-year-old named Isabelle Lee whose family is still trying to cope with her father's death. She has trouble coping with it, so she became self-conscious about herself, bulimic, and has trouble getting along with her mother and sister. After her 10-year-sister, April a.k.a. Ape Face, sees her trying to throw up, Isabelle is forced to go to "Eating Disorder and Body Image therapy Group", due to a deal her mother made with her. On her first day at the Group, something - or someone - stuns her; Ashley Barnum, the most popular girl in her school, was in the Group as well. The two became friends and slowly begin to learn about each other. While befriending Ashley, Isabelle learns stuff about Ashley that doesn't seem to be as "perfect" as the Ashley everyone else sees at achool. Isabelle eventually learns to cope with her father's death, along with gaining self-esteem and learning that you can't judge people by just looking at them. This book is for people, most likely girls, who are having self-esteem issues and this book explains what "perfect" girls are really like. **** Stars

- Reviewed by TCK-TAB Member

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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
Fanboy, master graphic novelist by night and total loser and bully-target by day, has spent years trying to maintain a cloak of invisibility around his peers and family. When members of the school in-group attempt to get Fanboy down, he merely turns the other cheek, adding them to his tally of evil-doers who deserve retribution. Fanboy has maybe one friend in the entire world - that is, until he meets Goth Girl, the pushy, loud-mouthed, never-take-slack-from-anybody gal who helps Fanboy realize his true talents. But Fanboy and Goth Girl are from totally different worlds - can they overcome their differences to join forces in combat against the less-than-cool hordes at school? Or will their opposing views become divisive - ending their relationship before it has begun?
Check out the Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga!!
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by Rachel Cohn

Read them in this order:
Gingerbread,
Shrimp,
and Cupcake.

Follow Cyd Charisse and her doll, Gingerbread, on all of their adventures from San Francisco to New York. Cyd Charisse's life is a bit chaotic. The story begins soon after CC is kicked out of boarding school. She comes back home and meets her true love, Shrimp. After giving her parents too many problems, she is sent off to live with her biological father in New York. The adventures begin there as she moves back and forth, from East Coast to West and back again. Although this book is chick lit, it is not a "puke-princess" kind of book. The ending will surprise you.

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Schooled by Gordon Korman
Capricorn Anderson has never watched television; he has never used a school locker, been to a public school of any sort, handled money, or hung out with anyone other than his grandmother, Rain. But when Rain falls out of a tree on their commune and breaks her hip, Capricorn is in for an eye-opening experience - a public middle school!

Capricorn, or "Cap," must now negotiate his way through school halls, student elections, spit balls, practical jokes, and the complicated social strata of 8th grade. Will his 1960s-styled, alternative, 'hippie' upbringing prepare Cap for the real, 21st-century world? Or will he be Schooled?