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Happy kid!

Gail Gauthier

2006
2006
first published
  • 2006G.P. Putnam's Sons · ENGISBN 9780399242663
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781101035313

All cynical Kyle wants is to get through the seventh grade unnoticed, but a self-help book from his well-meaning mother changes all that. Magically, the book seems to know all about him. And it wants him to improve his life.Not only is he friendless, mistakenly taking super-difficult accelerated courses, and infamous for allegedly being involved in a violent "incident" on the bus (a rep that has the school terror sticking to him like glue), one of the true A Kids wants to lure him into questioning whether his class cheated on their state exams. How could a book help anyone through this kind of misery?

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Written forMiddle grade

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