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Jojo vs. Middle School
Series: Team Awkward
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After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first book in the Team Awkward middle grade series. Jojo vs. Middle School...
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Description
After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first book in the Team Awkward middle grade series.
Jojo vs. Middle School follows Jojo, who has everything planned out for the perfect first day of middle school, down to her outfit and hairstyle. But when her mum, distracted by her new live-in boyfriend, Paul, forgets to wake her up, Jojo oversleeps and has to make do with leggings, a t-shirt, and her brother’s hoodie.
The day is still going okay until Jojo realises she has a hole in her leggings thanks to Purrito, the kitten Paul "gifted" her. Because Paul isn’t just any Paul; he’s Mr. Meow, a mega-famous cat-fluencer. Nearly everything in Jojo’s life is now cat-themed—including the underwear that the hole in her leggings is now showcasing to the whole school!
Embarrassed and unable to show her face in the cafeteria, Jojo spends her lunch period in an abandoned locker room. But she isn’t the only one hiding to cope with some major awkwardness. Maybe, with friends by her side, middle school won’t be so bad after all.
Series: Team Awkward
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Jojo vs. Middle School
After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first book in the Team Awkward middle grade series. Jojo vs. Middle School follows Jojo, who has everything planned out for the perfect first day of middle...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781665950725
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 February 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Aladdin
Illustration: f-c matte uv cvr w- spot uv
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 194.0mm
Weight: 132g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Joy McCullough writes books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author of the middle grade novels Across the Pond, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Not Starring Zadie Louise, Code Red, Kestrel Takes Flight, and Basil & Dahlia, as well as the middle grade series Team Awkward, and the picture books Harriet’s Ruffled Feathers, Champ and Major: First Dogs, and The Story of a Book. Her debut novel Blood Water Paint was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist. Visit her at JoyMcCullough.com.
Veeda Bybee is a former journalist and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of Lily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story, Li on Angel Island, and Shining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World. Veeda is also the coauthor of the Team Awkward middle grade series and part of the Rural Voices and Calling the Moon anthologies. She has a rescue golden retriever/cattle dog named Sophie (from Howl’s Moving Castle) and fluffy black cat, also from an animal shelter, named Zuko (from Avatar: The Last Airbender). Veeda lives with her family in Nevada where she reads, writes, and bakes.
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