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Flipped
byWendelin Van Draanen

    From the very first moment Juli heard a boy her age was moving into her neighborhood, she couldn't wait for him to arrive. All the other kids were too old or too young to hang out with, & she wanted Bryce to be the playmate she'd always wanted. But Bryce was much more than Juli had hoped for. When she sees him, with his shiny black hair & bright blue eyes, she knows it's love. She knows this boy is ‘carrying around’ her very first kiss. She flipped.

    Unfortunately, Bryce has a very different first impression of Juli. She's an annoying, know-it-all kid with muddy shoes & a bad habit of glueing herself to his side. From the very first moment he sees her climbing over the boxes in the moving van, “helping” & leaving tracks of muddy footprints all over, he knows this girl is no good. The situation is made even worse when his mother catches sight of the kid holding his hand & thinks it's all very cute. In an effort to keep Juli at bay he spends his first week inside, watching TV. “Buddy,” he tells himself, “beware.”