Virginia Hamilton (A) and Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Friendship / Drama – 2006)

Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester. Most of the time they have been in the school building — in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months…and then they are caught. As society — in the form of a zealous assistant principal — closes in on them, Junior fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend well-being. (224 pgs) Ages 8-12

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