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10th Grade
by Joseph Weisberg
272 pages
(2002, Random House)
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Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade — he wants to make some friends and he wants to take a girl's shirt off. It's not going too well at first, but when he meets a group of semibohemian outcasts, things start to change. Soon he's negotiating his way through group back rubs and trying to find the courage to make a move on Renee Shopmaker, the hottest girl in school. At the behest of his composition teacher, Jeremy's also chronicling everything in his own novel — a disastrously ungrammatical but unflinching look at sophomore year.
10th Grade was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Novel of 2002, and won a Young Adult Library Association Alex Award for Adult Novels That Appeal To Teenage Readers
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"Great read, stunningly realistic."
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