It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

Three hot chicks for three hot chicks." "THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!

I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade." "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says. "The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.