176 pages

Age level: 9 to 13 years

Grade level: 4th to 8th grade

Adam France is a quiet seventh grader at troubled Preston Underwood Junior High School, also known as "P.U. Junior High" - where it stinks to be a student. Adam is desperate to ditch his sixth period remedial reading class and the crazy kids in it. He just needs to pass the annual state reading test - a test he has failed every year since kindergarten.

Adam's sixth period classmates include the school's most disruptive students - Freddie Acosta, Taniqua Jones, and Fozzy Rosa to name a...