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Gr 8 Up—Willa Parker sits at the "freak" table at school and feels that she has a responsibility to take care of the others at the table. Because she "lost it" when defending Peanut Allergy Boy, her genius mother who lives in France and not with Willa and her father, decides to remove her from public school and the small town of Cheer and send her to a prestigious private school in the East. Willa, as to be expected, is not excited about going to Pembroke and leaving hom...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Sixteen-year-old Willa is less than psyched to be starting boarding school on the East Coast at the insistence of her high-powered, absentee mother (not that she's in love with her 646-person hometown, What Cheer, Iowa: "Yup, you heard me. What effing Cheer effing Iowa"). Overwhelmed by the "shoulds" of life, she decides she's going to kill herself. Then she meets Remy, Pembroke Prep's enigmatic, charismatic It Girl, "a person who deeply and truly doesn't give...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Sixteen-year-old Willa is less than psyched to be starting boarding school, and she decides she's going to kill herself. Then sh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More