The Detention Club (19 page)

Words can't express the level of gratitude I feel for my editor, Donna Bray, but let's give it a go. . . . Punctual? Nice phone-voiced? Better than adequate? I'm also indebted to her cheerful underlings, Ruta Rimas and Jordan Brown, and I'd like to thank Alessandra Balzer and everyone else over at Balzer Plus Bray. And I wouldn't even be working with them if it weren't for Steve Malk. Lastly, I'd like to thank my friends and family, for being there for me when other peoples' friends and families weren't.

DAVID YOO
is the author of the teen novels
STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE
and
GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST
. He is also a contributor to
GUYS READ: FUNNY BUSINESS
. He spends his spare time staring unblinking (in either wonder or abject horror) at his newborn son, Griffin. David lives in Massachusetts, where he teaches in the MFA program at Pine Manor College and at the Gotham Writers' Workshop. To See the creepiest-looking cat in the history of mankind, check out www.daveyoo.com.

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The Detention Club

Copyright © 2011 by David Yoo

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yoo, David, date.

   The detention club / by David Yoo. — 1st ed.

   p. cm.

   Summary: Sixth-grader Peter Lee, in a desperate attempt to regain the popularity he had in elementary school, discovers that serving detention can win him important friends, much to the dismay of his over-achieving eighth-grade sister, Sunny.

   ISBN 978-0-06-178378-4 (trade bdg. : alk. paper)

   [1. Middle schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Popularity—Fiction. 5. Conduct of life—Fiction. 6. Korean Americans—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.Y8155Det 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010046211

CIP

AC

 

EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062084453

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