"This artful, vourable first novel from Joe Weisberg re-creates high school with terrifying accuracy Weisberg deserves an A."

"A winning first novel about the awkward, anxious world of an everyday adolescent... Weisberg has written a charming, utterly American first novel."

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 semi-bohemian 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.