Perfectionist Elfie Oster learns the value of unperfection, in this funny look at middle school life from the author of Annie\'s Life in Lists Elfie Oster was sure that Hampshire Academy was going to be the perfect school for her.
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Kristin lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters.
Her first two books are Annie\'s Life in Lists and The 47 People You\'ll Meet in Middle School .
Her writing has appeared on the New York Times Learning Network blog, McCall\'s magazine, and the SCBWI Write This Gallery.
About author(s): KRISTIN Mahoney is a former magazine editor and elementary school reading teacher with a master\'s degree in elementary education and teaching literacy from Bank Street College of Education.
So really, this terrible, horrible, surprisingly hilarious year may just be the best thing that\'s ever happened to Elfie.
But sometimes when everything goes spectacularly wrong, you figure out what truly matters--and what doesn\'t. . . .
She\'s forced to do a group project involving an egg.
Her aunt and uncle aren\'t speaking.
Her babysitter gets really sick.
And then it gets worse.
It is not a perfect situation.
Or had friends.
Where she\'s never really fit in.
It was all a terrible misunderstanding, but until she can find a way to fix things, Elfie has to go back to Cottonwood Elementary for fifth grade.
On her first day.
She was sure about it right up to the minute she got expelled.
Perfectionist Elfie Oster learns the value of unperfection, in this funny look at middle school life from the author of Annie\'s Life in Lists Elfie Oster was sure that Hampshire Academy was going to be the perfect school for her
