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This second Printz Honor surprise follows Vera Dietz as she works through the loss of her best friend, the bad boy Charlie. "To say my friend died is one thing. To say my friend screwed me over and then died five months later is another." Only Vera can clear Charlie's tarnished name, but the events of his death still haunt her, along with the thousa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 9 Up—Vera Dietz and her troubled neighbor, Charlie, were best friends since childhood until they started to fall for one another junior year and everything broke apart. Evil Jenny Flick decides that she wants Charlie and that Vera is in the way. When Jenny offers Charlie oral sex and he refuses, she broadcasts his secret about his father's domestic abuse to the whole school and blames Vera. In "retaliation," Charlie reveals the fact that Vera's mother was a stripper before she deserted the family and then starts a perilous relationship with Jenny. In chapters that alternate scenes in the pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

High schooler Vera wants nothing more than to be invisible after her once-best-friend Charlie's death--especially since she knows...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

With a brazen, funny voice and a broken heart, Vera is instantly endearing. Occasional asides from Vera’s father, Charlie (in the afterlife), and even an aggrieved local landmark add to the book’s lively and refreshing tone. Periodic fl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More