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The Downside of Being Charlie

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By Jenny Torres Sanchez

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On Sale
May 22, 2012
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Running Press Kids
ISBN-13
9780762445325

Price

$5.99

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$7.99 CAD

Format

ebook

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Charlie is handed a crappy senior year. Despite losing thirty pounds over the summer, he still gets called “Chunks” Grisner. What’s worse, he has to share a locker with the biggest Lord of the Rings freak his school has ever seen. He also can’t figure out whether Charlotte VanderKleaton, the beautiful strawberry lip-glossed new girl, likes him the way he likes her. Oh, and then there’s his mom. She’s disappeared — again — and his dad won’t talk about it.

Somewhere between the madness, Charlie can at least find comfort in his one and only talent that just might get him out of this life-sucking place. But will he be able to hold his head above water in the meantime?

Genre:

  • Children's Books
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Family
  • General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)

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Jenny Torres Sanchez

About the Author

Jenny Torres Sanchez lives in Florida with her husband and children where she currently writes full time. Before her debut novel The Downside of Being Charlie she taught high school for several years, where she credits her eclectic students for inspiring her to write young adult novels.

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