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Product Description Who are the Obnoxious Jerks?A: The weirdest band of total misfits ever seen at any known high school in the free worldB: Amateur comedians whose routines include kazoos, used chewing gum, and gooey lemon meringue piesC: Members of a club whose Official Ice Cream Flavor is Nuts to YouD: A disorganized organization whose exploits are required reading for anybody with a sense of humorAll of the aboveand more There are jerks in every high school The Obnoxious Jerks are found only at Ullman Griswold Memorial High or, as they prefer to call it, UGH They specialize in pranks better known as jerkouts designed to show how ridiculous some school rules can be Which means the detention hall sometimes becomes the Jerks unofficial meeting roomThen something happens to shake up Jerkdom: A girl known as Iceberg Freeze asks to join the allmale clubthatsnotaclub Its not long before she finds herself at the center of the greatest jerkout everone that involves picket signs, mass demonstrations, and guys wearing skirtsWhats acceptable behavior? Whats worth fighting for? The Obnoxious Jerks twist, bend, and break the rules to find out And in the process learn a lot about questioning not only the outside world, but also themselves From the Author Praise for The Obnoxious JerksBrighter than their braindead classmates who yearn only for popularity, the Jerks concentrate on creating clever protests against stupid authority hilarious Breezy repartee and likable characters sharpen the bite of this trenchant view of the social stratification and administrative inflexibility typical of American high schools School Library Journal this lighthearted romp sparkles with puckish exuberance Publishers Weekly goofy, brazen antics Manes manages to make a good point while he entertains with fastflying humor and an iconoclastic view of school that are bound to appeal Booklist This bright, unpredictable cast creates enough havoc in its quintessentially dull school to keep readers thoroughly entertained Kirkus Reviews It was the first book that ever made me laugh out loud while I was reading it, and it still does every time I read it Its a great book about smartaleck students trying to change some of the dumber things about high school This book makes fun of the standard cliques in high schools: the jocks, student government, and those that just go along with the status quo Goodreads I loved The Obnoxious Jerks A huge, influential piece of my growing up Through a Glass, Darkly I loved that book I must have read it more than a hundred times My copy became waterlogged, dogeared, and stained with chocolate ice cream I read it so often that I still have scenes memorized The Prosers
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ISBN10:0553281143
ISBN13: 9780553281149
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