In this acclaimed novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn\'t easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a classroom prankster like Paulie Fink.
She lives near Williamstown, Massachusetts..
Led by new student Caitlyn, seventh-graders at a tiny rural school in Vermont create a reality-show inspired competition to determine who will replace the school\'s legendary class clown, Paulie Fink, in this highly anticipated second novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling "The Thing About Jellyfish."About the Author: Ali Benjamin is a New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist for The Thing About Jellyfish, and the co-writer for HIV-positive teen Paige Rawl\'s coming-of-age memoir Positive as well as Tim Howard\'s national bestseller The Keeper.
Told in multiple voices, interviews, and documents, this funny, thought-provoking novel from the bestselling author of The Thing About Jellyfish is a memorable exploration of what makes a hero--and if anyone, or anything, is truly what it seems.
With each challenge, Caitlyn struggles to understand a person she never met...but it\'s what she discovers about herself that most surprises her.
Now he\'s disappeared, and Caitlyn finds herself leading a reality-show-style competition to find the school\'s Next Great Paulie Fink.
One thing\'s for sure, though: The kid was totally legendary.
Depending on whom you ask, Paulie was either a hilarious class clown, a relentless troublemaker, a hapless klutz, or an evil genius.
When Caitlyn Breen begins her disorienting new life at the rural Mitchell School--where the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh grade--it seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink.
In this acclaimed novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn\'t easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a classroom prankster like Paulie Fink
