WHAT'S NEW- Agnes Parker... Keeping Cool in Middle School  Kirkus Starred Review, Jr. Library Guild Selection (Hardcover - Jul 5, 2007). Agnes (13) is back, and this time she's in seventh grade. Initially, she decides that the best defense against the rude eighth-grade boys and their rating system and the judgmental girls and their snobbishness is to fly under the radar. This seems to be working well until her best friend, Prejean, decides to run for class president, making Agnes her campaign manager and the center of what becomes a political and social firestorm. Add in marital problems between Prejean's parents, as well as Aram, a boy in her art class who seems to have more than just friendship on his mind, and suddenly Agnes's life gets a lot more complicated. O'Dell's writing perfectly captures the painful and sometimes funny middle-school years. Agnes will once again charm readers with her sweet and generous nature, even as she navigates the new and scary world of seventh grade. Thoughtful and captivating. Bad Tickets One of Booklist's Top Ten Women's History Books for Youth "A previous author of middle-grade novels, O'Dell makes a fab entrée into the world of YA literature. Although she sets her story in the '60s counterculture, today's readers will find no generation gap when it comes to Mary Margaret's questioning of friends, family and religion and her pressures and experimentation with sex, drugs and rock-'n'-roll." --Kirkus "With insight and humor, O'Dell gives the good-girl-bad-girl story new depth." --Booklist Starred Review

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