Crushing It

Twelve-year-old Kat woos the boy next door on behalf of her best friend, and in the process realizes that true beautyand true confidencecomes from the inside in this hilarious M!X novel from the author of Small Medium at Large.Kat is already so over seventh grade. It doesnt help that her best friend and cousin, Olivia, grew a foot over the summer and won a spot on the schools dance team, shooting her up on the popularity scale. In the jungle that is middle school, Olivia is a gazelle. Braces-wearing, manga-loving, uncoordinated Kat is a warthog. Plus, Tyler, Kats next-door neighbor and buddy since birth, morphed into a really cute boy over the summer. Suddenly the person Kats used to playing Xbox with is causing her stomach to do cartwheels. When Olivia confesses that she has a crush on Tyler and wants to ask him to the Fall Ball dance, Kat knows theres going to be a problem: Tyler thinks Olivia is just another ditsy girl who only cares about lip gloss and boy bands. But since Kats one of Tylers oldest friends, Olivias sure shell know how to get his attention. Trying to be a good friend and squash her own feelings, Kat makes it her mission to get the two of them together. From writing Tyler cheat sheets listing his favorite things, to feeding Olivia lines through her headphones during Tyler-focused study sessions, Kat devises schemes by which Tyler will fall for Olivia. And to her delightor maybe horrorher plan begins to work. Now that Olivias caught Tylers attention, Kat has to wonder if shes fooled Tyler into falling for the wrong girl. But what boy would ever choose a warthog over a gazelle?