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...taken aback, but by the end of chapter two, she pulls it together and does what she has to do: ditches her old lunch table, trades the books in for looks, and with the help of her hyperactive parents, drafts a plan to become the most popular girl at Woodcliff High...
...harm in revealing a few emblematic details of Opal’s weird, scary life: her parents, for starters, are wildly irrational and possibly schizophrenic, encouraging their daughter to drink, wear short skirts, and seduce a boy who wants to be known as the conservative face of Woodcliff High. Throughout the book, Opal’s father clownishly apes hip-hop slang and says things like “Don’t be trippin’, Opal...
...point, the poor girl compares her tragic assimilation into high school high society to Operation Desert Storm; at another, she says that the lunchroom hierarchy at Woodcliff is like the caste system in India...
Vanessa Smith, the principal of Dorchester Elementary School in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., had a week to prepare her students for the return of a fifth-grader who lost her father. Dorchester's teachers set about making discussions of death as age appropriate as possible. Kindergartners talked about dogs and cats they've buried; older children wrote essays about what they would have done in a hijacked plane. All week long the school's students were eerily quiet; teachers must have missed a little rowdiness. "It was as if by being incredibly well behaved, good things would start to happen," says...
...Three won't U-turn away from big anytime soon. Last year sales of SUVs were up 32.4%, and truck sales of all types rose 4.5%. Passenger-car sales, in contrast, dropped 2.7%, according to Autodata Corp. of Woodcliff Lake, N.J. In that kind of market, the new Beetle is already living up to its far-out image...