Total Knockout: Tale of an Ex-Class President
There's nothing ordinary about thirteen-year-old Lucia Latham. She gets straight As, loves health food, and is a great boxer. Nothing is more fun than a good old sparring match with her best friend, Cooper, especially since she usually wins.
What Lucia wants most though, aside from for her dad to find a new job, is to work in the White House someday -- and she's on the right track. She's been junior high class president for two years running, and as eighth grade starts she is about to be elected for the third year in a row, an occurrence she would like to point out is unprecedented. In short, there are few things Lucia tackles that don’t turn out exactly the way she wants them, and she has no reason to suspect that this year will be any different.
But no sooner is she elected three-peat president than she's impeached! Also an unprecedented occurrence. What’s an ex-president to do -- especially when it's all her fault? Can Lucia rebuild her carefully constructed world in time to save not only her political reputation but also her own self-image?
Published by Simon & Schuster MiX on September 9, 2008.
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Class Favorite
It all started three days after I officially became a woman: the message of mass destruction arrived. It was February 14, to be exact. Happy Valentine's Day.
Sara Thurman has never considered herself part of the popular crowd -- she's got her best friend, Arlene, and that seems like enough. But when Sara's mom sends a special Valentine's Day delivery to her class, all of a sudden Sara is very famous—only for a horribly embarrassing reason. It seems everyone at Bowie Junior High knows something about Sara that she's rather keep to herself, and the harder Sara tries to blend in, the more she ends up sticking out.
Not only that, but it suddenly seems that Arlene doesn't have time for her anymore, and she has an unbearable crush on Jason, who doesn't have any idea who she is (until now, that is). Worst of all, nothing's felt the same since Sara's dad left home. It all has Sara wondering if things will ever return to normal—especially if she can't even remember what normal feels like. Sara can't figure out why it seems that everyone else has it easier than she does. Would things be better if she were popular? Sara decides that if she can't beat 'em, she'll join 'em, and she hatches a top secret mission to become…Class favorite.
Published by Simon & Schuster MiX on November 6, 2007.
Original Divas
When I'm good I'm very good, when I'm bad, I'm better. -- Mae West
Want to know how to transform yourself into the toast of Paris, or how to belt out bone-chilling blues? Read about the triumphs, tragedies and taboos conquered by stage divas Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, Mae West, Carmen Miranda and Lillie Langtry. Original Divas supplies tons of details on the fabulous lives of these provocative performers through excerpts from diaries, interviews and historic photographs that portray just how smart and glamorous gals can be. Le jazz hot indeed.
Published by Girl Press on July 15, 2001.
