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Gr 8-Up Gretchen Yee, 16, feels painfully ordinary in a school where everyone is an overachiever. Teachers at The Manhattan School for Art and Music don -t appreciate her artistic skill, and she feels like she doesn -t fit in with the students. She longs to understand what others think of her, and her wish to be a fly on the wall of the boys - locker room comes true. She spends a week there observing her classmates, learning and seeing more than she ever expected. In addition to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

With an appropriate nod and wink to Kafka, this unexpectedly sharp comedy charts its own metamorphosis—from teen angst ("Life as an Artificial Redhead") to surreal wish-fulfillment fantasy ("Life as a Vermin") and beyond ("Life as a Superhero"). Gretchen Yee, a well-intentioned but self-absorbed teen smarting over her parents' sudden divorce, wishes she could be "a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room"—and then has to deal with the consequences when he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More