“Wood has created a pitch-perfect teen voice in Dan’s first-person narrative. Dan’s honesty, smarts, and earnest efforts to do good may not earn him any popularity points at school, but they will win readers’ affection and admiration.” - Publishers Weekly “With sensitivity and humor, Wood traces the roller-coaster life of a boy in the midst of significant upheaval. Readers will care about the teens who struggle to come of age. The story's charming and unique characters really carry the day. Dan expresses his outsider status as being like a lemon rolling down an apple chute. Imagery is another of this novel's strengths. There is situational humor, as well, in cinematic-like scenes, particularly in the classroom. * "Told in Dan's voice, the narrative reveals a young man whose sardonic view of himself and those around him provides an amused but angst-filled tone. His life is a mess, but for now he's narrowed it down to just six impossible things.
Nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with a whole heap of problems, including a reversal of family fortune, moving, new-school hell, a mother with a failing wedding cake business, a just-out gay dad, and a massive crush on Estelle, the girl next door. In this charming story of one guy's efforts to get it together when his life is falling apart, award-winning author Fiona Wood introduces an irresistible voice and a delightfully awkward character who is impossible to forget.
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