Now whenever anyone insists it’s impossible for things to change, I take them on a tour of the kingdom of Big Mess. First, we stop at my locker for a look at my photo collage of miracles. Then we stroll past Dijon’s beauty board, which is still up, though the messages are a bit different these days. Finally, we head to the cafeteria to see my faces on the big wall. That usually does the trick.
Poof!
I’ve been giving that tour a lot lately.
Well, I couldn’t very well stop with Renata, could I? Once you’ve seen row after row after row of nice, neat, never-make-trouble Nobodies, there’s no turning back. Not counting the five of us, there are 127 Nobodies in the eighth grade alone. I know because we stayed up late at Fawn’s sleepover counting every single one.
Good thing my dad and I found a house this week. It has a big front porch.
One hundred and twenty-seven Nobodies.
I—we—have a long way to go.
TRUDI TRUEIT knew she’d found her life’s passion after writing (and directing) her first play in the fourth grade. Since then she’s been a newspaper journalist, a television news reporter-anchor, and a public relations specialist, and she’s now a children’s book author. Trudi has published more than eighty fiction and nonfiction titles for young readers. She lives in Everett, Washington, with her husband and two cats (one feisty calico and one enormous ragdoll). Visit her website at www.truditrueit.com.
ALADDIN M!X
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HAVE YOU READ ALL THE M!X BOOKS?
TRAUMA QUEEN
THE HOT LIST
SOLVING ZOE
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN MY INSANELY REAL LIFE
THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON
FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF
D IS FOR DRAMA
ODD GIRL IN
SEEING CINDERELLA
RUBY’S SLIPPERS
NICE AND MEAN
THE SECRET IDENTITY OF DEVON DELANEY
DEVON DELANEY SHOULD TOTALLY KNOW BETTER
FOUR TRUTHS AND A LIE
JUST ADD MAGIC
TRADING FACES
TAKE TWO
DOUBLE FEATURE
CLASS FAVORITE
TOTAL KNOCKOUT
BFF BREAKUP
COMMERCIAL BREAKS #1: FAMOUS FOR THIRTY SECONDS
COMMERCIAL BREAKS #2: PICTURE PERFECT
COMMERCIAL BREAKS #3: DRAMATIC PAUSE
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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