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Crushed

by Laura McNeal, Tom McNeal · 2006

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From National Book Award-nominated authors Laura and Tom McNeal

Audrey and her two best friends have just transferred to Jemison High from their tiny private school. They're a nerdy little trio, so everyone is shocked when the handsome new guy, Wickham Hill, asks Audrey out. Audrey is so smitten that she doesn't pay much attention to The Yellow Paper, a vicious underground school newspaper...until it threatens to tell a tale that could change everything.

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Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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