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Picklemania!

by Jerry Spinelli · 1993

School Daze Series series

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A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.

Plumstead Middle School is full of secret plans. Eddie is on a mission to bulk up—he's sick of being the skinniest, scrawniest, runtiest kid in school. Sunny is plotting something that will keep the school bullies from ever bothering her again. Salem is trying to figure out who sent her that mysterious valentine message in the school newspaper. And Pickles has been building his greatest invention yet—and it's almost time to unveil it.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of thisfriendshipfriendshipMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Mood
nostalgianostalgiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensmiddle grade
Length
short · 144 pages

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