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Lisa nods. “Same with yours,” she says. “No offence, but your guitar player should have sung, and you could have rocked out on bass.”
I nod. “Well,” I say, “he didn't learn it, so I had to do it. It doesn't matter. I know I've gotta change the words more. It's still not very good.” I wrap my arms around my knees. “And anyway, it
really
doesn't matter. The band just broke up.”
Lisa nods and says, “Mine too.”
I look at her. “Your band broke up? Why?”
She sighs, then tucks her hair behind her ear and says, “'Cause we sucked and I said so, and nobody but me wanted to practice more so we wouldn't suck.”
I think that over as a song ends. Maybe it's my night for saying things. I look at Lisa. Then I look a little bit to one side of her, as if I'm thinking deep thoughts. “We've got guitar, vocal and bass,” I say. Deep breath. “Um, maybe we should start a band.”
I dare a look at her.
She's smiling. Lisa says, “I think we just did.”
Since the publication of his first picturebook,
Puddleman
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In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school. He thinks about girls and tries to avoid teachers. He hangs out at the coffee shop with his best friend after school. He has a loving father who helps him with his homework. But Poe has a secret, and almost every day some small act threatens to expose him.
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Fifteen-year-old Maddie has big-city dreams, and she's found her chance to visit New York. An art magazine is holding a portrait contest, and the first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Apple. Maddie plans to win, but her mother has different ideas for her: a mother-daughter adventure in organic gardening. Maddie is furious. How will she find an inspiring subject for her portrait amid the goat poop and chickens?
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Suspended from school, lonely and bored, fifteen-year-old Zack will do anything for amusement. His mom drags him out geocaching, and Zack finds a cd with the word
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Beyond Repair
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Fast Slide
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Flower Power
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Fraud Squad
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Horse Power
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Hypnotized
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In a Flash
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Junkyard Dog
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Living Rough
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Manga Touch
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Marked
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Perfect Revenge
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Power Chord
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Slick
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The Snowball Effect
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Special Edward
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Splat!
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Spoiled Rotten
Dayle Campbell Gaetz
Storm Tide
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Struck
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Stuff We All Get
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Sudden Impact
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Swiped
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Watch Me
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Windfall
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Wired
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