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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.”
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