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    The New Girl
    The New Girl
    The New Girl
    Ebook58 pages35 minutes

    The New Girl

    By P. J. Denton and Julia Denos

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    It's Thanksgiving break and Kara is psyched to be hosting the next sleepover. Jo is also excited -- she just learned that her cousin Ceci is coming to visit for the whole week! Ceci lives in another state so Jo hardly gets to see her, and she can't wait to introduce Ceci to the Squad!

    At first everyone is thrilled, but then it seems like Jo is only paying attention to her cousin. Everyone is worried about the sleepover. Will it still be as fun? Or will Jo only care about spending time with her cousin and forget about the Squad completely?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateSep 4, 2012
    ISBN9781442466401
    The New Girl
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    P. J. Denton

    P. J. Denton is a pseudonym for Catherine Hapka. She has written for dozens of series, including Sleepover Squad, The A Circuit, Nancy Drew, The Saddle Club, Sweet Valley Jr. High, Sweet Valley Twins, Magic Attic Club, Wild at Heart, Ghosts of Fear Street, Making Friends, Wonder Girls, Dinotopia, and Avalon. Cathy lives in Pennsylvania.

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    • 4/5
      The twist ending was predictable but still enjoyable. I feared that the "darkness" of the Fear Street series would make it questionable for middle school students, but was pleasantly surprised to find that, while dark, it wasn't horror-movie so.
    • 3/5
      Her name is Anna, a beautiful outgoing girl that captivates 16 year old Cory Brooks' attention immediately when he sees her in school. Soon, she's all he can think about. His grades start slipping, he stops showing up for gymnastics practice, he neglects his other friendships. But something is odd about Anna. She's not around much, and she's almost impossible to get a hold of after school. He tries to visit her house, but the only person there is her brother... who claims that Anna is dead!The New Girl is a suspenseful, page-turning, quick read that keeps the readers' attention throughout but is mostly a let-down. I would have given it a lower rating if it wasn't as entertaining as it was, but I was more disappointed by the outcome than anything. Without spoiling too much, things are not what they seem in this book and the surprise ending, rather than being unexpected and SATISFYING is really quite boring and mundane. I wasn't expecting it, but I would have probably preferred a more predictable outcome than the resolution that is given. On another note, Cory Brooks is an interesting character. His total obsession with Anna (especially in light of what we find out about her by the end of the book, which totally nulls any justification based on legitimate hypnotism or something) is really off-putting, but a male lead that is a gymnast rather than a football player or something is peculiar in a pleasant way. This actually incorporates itself into a lot of the book and isn't merely a superfluous filler detail about his character, and I liked that as well. I thought it was skillfully rendered. The New Girl is clearly a formulaic kind of story of the kind that is standard for R.L. Stine, but still a nice afternoon read if you want something thrilling but not too dense.
    • 4/5
      Cory can't stop thinking about Anna the mysterious new girl at school. His obsession is ruining his grades and his gynastics not to mention his relationships with his friends. And now everyone is telling him that Anna is dead. Maybe I am just a sucker for high school books, but I enjoyed this story. It gave me just a little chill and I really enjoy that. It is completely appropriate for tweens and teens. A quick, fun read.
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    Book preview

    The New Girl - P. J. Denton

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    Contents

    1: Autumn is Awesome!

    2: Exciting News

    3: Hola, Ceci

    4: A Weeklong Sleepover

    5: Members Only?

    6: What Now?

    7: Season of Change

    8: Trying Too Hard

    9: Pranks and Pen Pals

    1

    Autumn is Awesome!

    What do you guys think?" Jo Sanchez asked.

    She had just finished drawing and coloring in a bunch of maple and oak leaves. Now she held up the paper so her three best friends—Emily McDougal, Kara Wyatt, and Taylor Kent—could see it. The four of them were sharing one of the big, wooden-topped tables in the sunny art room at Oak Tree Elementary School. Today’s class project was to create pictures of autumn leaves like the ones decorating the trees outside.

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    Emily was the first one to look up. That looks really good, Jo, she said in her soft voice. Your maple leaves are the same shade of red as the real ones on the tree outside my bedroom window.

    Thanks, Emily. Jo smiled at her friend. Emily was good at art. She also knew a lot about trees, since she and her parents lived on a small farm with lots of trees on it. Besides that, she was super honest. If she said that Jo’s leaf picture looked realistic, she meant it.

    That made Jo happy. She wasn’t as good at art as Emily, but she liked to get things right—especially when it came to school. She was one of the best students in the third grade.

    Jo looked over at her other two best friends. It looked as though neither of them had heard her question. Kara’s springy red hair was falling over her freckled face as she bent over her own leaf picture. She was concentrating so hard that her tongue was sticking out of the corner of her mouth.

    Rats! Kara cried out suddenly. She tossed away the orange crayon she had been using. I went outside the lines again!

    Never mind, Kara, Emily said, tucking her long, pale blond hair behind her ear. That just makes it more artistic. Lots of famous artists do stuff like go outside the lines.

    Jo smiled. Emily was good at coming up with the nicest possible way to tell the truth.

    Just then Jessica Polk skipped past on her way to the pencil sharpener. She glanced down at everyone’s drawings as she passed their table. That was no surprise. Jessica was the class busybody. She liked to know everything that was going on with everyone all the time. Hey, Taylor! Jessica blurted out in her loud voice. You’re supposed to be drawing leaves, not soccer balls!

    Jo grinned and leaned over to look at Taylor’s picture. There was part of a leaf drawn in the middle of the paper. But all around the edges were sketches of soccer balls, soccer goals, and even a pair of soccer cleats. The drawings were kind of sloppy. Taylor was very smart and got pretty good grades in most subjects as long as she remembered to pay attention. But she was a little too impatient to be good at drawing.

    Taylor finally looked up from her paper. Oops, she said. "I guess I got distracted thinking about my soccer tournament. I can hardly believe it’s

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