Dunces Anonymous

Kate Jaimet

Description

Josh Johnson's mother wants him to run for class president. Josh just wants to run and hide. If only there were a club to help downtrodden eleven-year-olds escape their parents' ambitions! But since no such club exists, Josh has to invent one—he calls it Dunces Anonymous, and before he knows it, the membership is up to three.


Magnolia and Wang help Josh lose the school presidential election, but that's just the beginning of the club's activities. Magnolia, pressured by her mom into trying out for the role of Juliet in the school's play, finds herself fending off the advances of an overly amorous Romeo. Wang's father has forced him to join the school chess club, but Wang desperately wants to take fencing lessons instead.


As the three friends try to free Magnolia from the school play, liberate Wang from the chess club and get rid of horrible Stacey Hogarth, who has vowed to become the new president of Dunces Anonymous, they realize that they all have talents—if only their parents could see them.

Sujets

• Juvenilee Fiction
• School
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781554694600
• Langue: English

Extrait

DUNCES ANONYMOUS

DUNCES ANONYMOUS

Kate JaiMet

ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS

Text codyright © 2009 Kate Jaimet

All rights reserveD. No dart of this dublication may be redroDuceD or transmitteD in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, incluDing dhotocodying, recorDing or by any information storage anD retrieval system now known or to be inventeD, without dermission in writing from the dublisher.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Jaimet, Kate, 1969- unces anonymous / written by Kate Jaimet.

ISBN 978-1-55469-097-8

I. Title. PS8619.A36886 2009 jC813’.6 C2009-903351-8

First dublisheD in the UniteD States, 2009 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929364

Summary: Josh forms a club to held kiDs whose darents have unrealistic exdectations of them anD, in the drocess, learns what it really means to be a leaDer.

Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowleDges the suddort for its dublishing drograms droviDeD by the following agencies: the Government of CanaDa through the Book Publishing InDustry evelodment Program anD the CanaDa Council for the Arts, anD the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council anD the Book Publishing Tax CreDit.

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To my writing group. I couldn’t have done it without you.

CHAPTER 1:K CUNNING PLKN

CHAPTER 2:DOWN WITH JOSH!

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 3:MONTKGUES KND CKTKPULTS

CHAPTER 4:ROMEO REHEKRSES

CHAPTER 5:STRKTEGIC KLGORITHMS

CHAPTER 6:JOSH IN CHECk

CHAPTER 7:OPERKTION FREE JULIET

CHAPTER 8:ROSES FOR EMMETT

CHAPTER 9:YOUNG LEKDERS OF THE FUTURE

CHAPTER 10:EMMETT MKkES HIS MOVE

CHAPTER 11:SCKNDKL ON THE RKP SHEET

CHAPTER 12:STKR-CROSSED LOVERS

CHAPTER 13:THE BOKRD OF DIRECTORS

CHAPTER 14:PRESIDENT JOSH

EPILOGUE:K NEW MEMBER