Flipped

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A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy, with bonus content including a Q&A with the author. All I've ever wanted is for Juli Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off - you know, just give me some space. Juli has been making Bryce's life hell from the moment they met. All he wants is to live a normal life, without some crazy person mooning after him. The first day I met Bryce Loski, I flipped. Honestly, one look at him and I became a lunatic. It's his eyes. But she doesn't see it that way. In her eyes, they're meant for each other, even though he might not realize it yet. That is, until the eighth grade, when everything flips. And just as Juli starts to realize that Bryce may not be all he seemed, Bryce begins to think that there's more to Juli than meets the eye . . . Wendelin Van Draanen's Flipped is a modern-day classic about first love and not judging a book by it's cover. A romantic comedy-of-errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices.

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With a charismatic leading lady kids will flip over, a compelling dynamic between the two narrators and a resonant ending, this novel is a great deal larger than the sum of its parts -- Publishers Weekly, Starred review
Van Draanen has another winner in this eighth-grade he-said, she-said romance. -- School Library Journal, Starred review
Delightful! Delicious! And totally teen. -- BookPage
This is a wry character study, a romance with substance and subtlety -- Booklist

Author Bio

Wendelin Van Draanen has written more than thirty novels for young readers and teens. She is the author of the eighteen book Edgar-winning Sammy Keyes series - often called 'The new Nancy Drew' - and wrote Flipped, which was named a Top 100 Children's Novel for the 21st Century by School Library Journal and became a Warner Brothers feature film, with Rob Reiner directing. A classroom teacher for fifteen years, Wendelin resides in California where she can be spotted riding shopping carts across parking lots. She and her husband, Mark Parsons, have two sons and enjoy the three R's: Reading, Running, and Rock'n'Roll.