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Everybody Bugs Out by Leslie Margolis

booksforlosers's review

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4.0

I love Annabelle and Oliver but I absolutely hate her friends.. Rachel is a shallow, ignorant brat and Claire is a selfish, uppity princess... ugh

finesilkflower's review

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4.0

The start was a little slow with about 20 girls being introduced, each with her own outfit, but by the time the girls get into a detailed conversation about EXACTLY WHAT IS MEANT by a boy's shrug and HOW BIG WAS THE SHRUG, I was hooked. Cute romance and friendship story with lots of gossip and middle-school drama and some clever (if old-fashioned for sixth-graders) turns of phrase.

One neat thing for a dance-centric story is that all the girls felt 100% free to ask boys to the dance, which I didn't notice while reading it because it was so normal to me and my understanding of life, but which is so often incorrectly a big deal in books like this.
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