The loser sat scrunched up in a corner for the rest of the trip. MR: We had foot-fights in the back seat of the Impala to see who could take over the most room. Tell me a story that sums up your relationship with your brother. We’ve called this book a “sibling” book to This Is Just a Test, since we switch from David to his sister, Lauren. Also, any time I hear a song from that time period, the accompanying music video starts playing in my head. We became friends she later moved to West Germany and we wrote letters to each other (this sentence does not exist in 2020). This girl I knew only moderately well told me that my purse was “really boppy,” and I spent several moments trying to figure out if it was a compliment or an insult. It was a compliment. I was in ninth or tenth grade PE, and I had gotten a new purse which was yellow and blue. Well, that and the fact that my marching band marched to an Earth Wind and Fire song. Now imagine Little Orphan Annie at 16, in an Army jacket covered with punk-rock buttons, and instead of singing “Hard Knock Life,” she was singing The Go-Gos. Sometimes I blame it on my parents’ divorce, but I think the real culprit was a curly perm I got that made me look like Little Orphan Annie. Madelyn Rosenberg: The fact that very few pictures of me exist from the year I turned 16. Confession time: What makes you a child of the 80s? Wendy Wan-Long Shang: We’re back in the 80s for this book with Sun-in, Star Search, and banana clips. When she is denied the lead in the school musical because the teacher believes that she doesn’t appear to be “all-American,” Lauren must find a way to fight for what she loves. Lauren loves her best friend Tara, singing, and someone she believes to be a kindred spirit -country-western singer Patsy “Klein,” whom she assumes must be Jewish just like her. 2017, Gr 4-8), this time from the viewpoint of younger sister Lauren. 2020, Gr 3-7), we return to the world we created in This Is Just a Test (Scholastic, Jun. In our new book, Not Your All-American Girl (Scholastic, Jul.

Nanny X by Madelyn Rosenberg