Into the Wild Nerd Yonder

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Macmillan, Sep 29, 2009 - Juvenile Fiction - 247 pages

It's Jessie's sophomore year of high school. A self-professed "mathelete," she isn't sure where she belongs. Her two best friends have transformed themselves into punks and one of them is going after her longtime crush. Her beloved older brother will soon leave for college (and in the meantime has shaved his mohawk and started dating . . . the prom princess!) . . .


Things are changing fast. Jessie needs new friends. And her quest is a hilarious tour through high-school clique-dom, with a surprising stop along the way--the Dungeons and Dragons crowd, who out-nerd everyone. Will hanging out with them make her a nerd, too? And could she really be crushing on a guy with too-short pants and too-white gym shoes?


If you go into the wild nerd yonder, can you ever come back?

 

Selected pages

Contents

chapter 1
1
chapter 2
11
chapter 3
17
chapter 4
22
chapter 5
28
chapter 6
33
chapter 7
38
chapter 8
43
chapter 21
130
chapter 22
132
chapter 23
140
chapter 24
145
chapter 25
149
chapter 26
154
chapter 27
161
chapter 28
165

chapter 9
48
chapter 10
54
chapter 11
63
chapter 12
71
chapter 13
79
chapter 14
83
chapter 15
94
chapter 16
98
chapter 17
107
chapter 18
114
chapter 19
119
chapter 20
123
chapter 29
179
chapter 30
187
chapter 31
201
chapter 32
204
chapter 33
209
chapter 34
217
chapter 35
223
chapter 36
226
chapter 37
239
chapter 38
243
Acknowledgments
Copyright

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Julie Halpern
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Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
Julie Halpern
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About the author (2009)

Julie Halpern is the author of Get Well Soon, Into the Wild Nerd Yonder and Don't Stop Now, as well as the picture book Toby and the Snowflakes. In addition to writing, Julie is a middle-school librarian. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, lived in Australia for six months, and created a couple of zines before she started writing books, and realized she was and always has been a writer. She is married to the artist Matthew Cordell, and they live outside Chicago with their daughter and gloriously large Siamese cat, Tobin.

Bibliographic information

TitleInto the Wild Nerd Yonder
AuthorJulie Halpern
PublisherMacmillan, 2009
ISBN0312382529, 9780312382520
Length247 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings
Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / School & Education
Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age
Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship
  
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