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As twelve-year-old River and some of her friends work on a handbook for sixth-grade parents, they have to deal with information from the candid Ms. Furley's sex education lessons as well as the efforts of the class flirt to break up several couples.
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River is dreading the assignment in Mrs. Furley's Human Interaction class. The students actually have to discuss a boy's changes! River is finding it hard enough to figure out how to interact with her own friends. Like, she is happy that D.B. is her sort-of boyfriend, but now Kirstin is always flirting with him. And Margaret and Noah are a good couple, but then Noah passes River a note asking her to call him at home. River never guessed that everyday interactions could get so complicated!
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River is dreading the assignment in Mrs. Furley's Human Interaction class. The students actually have to discuss a boy's changes! River is finding it hard enough to figure out how to interact with her own friends. Like, she is happy that D.B. is her sort-of boyfriend, but now Kirstin is always flirting with him. And Margaret and Noah are a good couple, but then Noah passes River a note asking her to call him at home. River never guessed that everyday interactions could get so complicated!
Planning the Impossible is the companion novel to Expecting the Unexpected, now available from Dell Books for Young Readers in paperback.
Mavis Jukes won a Newbery Honor for Like Jake and Me.
Praise for Planning the Impossible:
"Offering on-target dialogue and a few twists, this book will leave readers itching for another installment."
--Publishers Weekly
"River's slangy, humorous narration...insightfully documents the interesting similarities, and surprising connections, between friendship and courtship."
--The Horn Book
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0606200223
- ISBN 13 9780606200226
- BindingPaperback
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