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Can you get an F in lunch?

Krulik, Nancy E. (Author).

Jenny McAfee is ready to start sixth grade with her best friend Addie, but Addie has plans of ditching Jenny for the Pops - the coolest seventh graders in school.

Book  - 2007
J FIC Kruli
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  • ISBN: 9780439025553
  • ISBN: 0439025559
  • Physical Description 101 pages.
  • Publisher New York ; Scholastic Inc., [2007]

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"RL4, 008-012"--P. [4] of cover.
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Syndetic Solutions - Publishers Weekly Review for ISBN Number 9780439025553
Can You Get an F in Lunch?
Can You Get an F in Lunch?
by Krulik, Nancy
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Can You Get an F in Lunch?

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Krulik (the Katie Kazoo Switcheroo series) treads on tried-and-true turf in the first installment of the How I Survived Middle School series, but does so credibly and affectingly. Having read the middle school handbook cover-to-cover, likable narrator Jenny arrives on the first day of sixth grade confident that she knows the ropes. And she's wearing a t-shirt from the sleepaway camp she attended over the summer-how cool is that? Not in the slightest, she realizes, as she spies her best friend Addie sporting a stylish, sophisticated outfit ("Middle School Rule #1: A big green t-shirt with a lizard on the front is not mature"). Things go downhill from there: searching for the cafeteria, she gets "punked" by eighth-graders who give her directions to a nonexistent elevator, and she eats the lunch she's brought from home (another faux pas) in a phone booth while pretending to chat on the phone after Addie abandons her for the popular crowd. Readers will cringe at-and sympathize with-Jenny as her earnest attempts to fit in with Addie's new gang fail miserably. But a group of warm, independent-minded kids befriend her, raising her spirits and self-esteem and helping her gain perspective on Addie's snobby, superficial clique. Also guiding Jenny through the middle school quagmire is a Web site she discovers, www.middleschoolsurvival.com, which contains school- and friend-related quizzes (Scholastic will supply an actual Web site at this address). Jenny and Addie vie for the class presidency in Madame President, due out this month as well. Ages 9-12. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved