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Revisit
Mia in the Second of the Series!
 Summer
has finally arrived, but Mia Fullerton doesn’t
have much to celebrate. Her best friend, Lisa, is spending
the summer at a Mensa camp, and her boyfriend, Tim, will
be at his grandparents’ house in Maine. So, stuck with
a choice of spending the next two months hanging out with
her younger brother, Chris—who has declared a prank
war on her—or taking a job on the stage crew at a local
children’s theater group, Mia chooses the lesser of
two evils and begins working at Little Tyke’s.
The
moment she meets the other student members of the stage crew,
Mia realizes she’s
not at St. Hilary’s anymore. There’s Zoë, a Goth punk rock
singer with fifteen facial piercings; Henry, a caffeine addict with the self-declared
ability to predict people’s coffee preferences; and Eric, a former childhood
friend who’s definitely outgrown his shy ways and geeky appearance.
At
first, Mia’s mortified when she’s forced to
perform for audiences dressed as Playtime Pal—the clown
who introduces the plays—or be a last-second stand-in
for a kid who’s just tossed his cookies on stage (after
she has cleaned it up, of course) or is abruptly hauled off
for a family vacation. But as the summer progresses, Mia
realizes something very strange—she actually enjoys
acting!
As Mia begins to explore this less meek version
of her former self, Tim does something that destroys her
trust in him and shatters her heart. This act of betrayal
ultimately sends Mia into the arms of the easy-going, Adonis-like,
and very willing Eric. And when the summer comes to an end,
bringing Tim back into her Des Moines, Iowa life, Mia has
a tough decision to make: Should she return to Tim and her
former shy ways, or should she continue to let this new Mia
grab some limelight of her own?
In
this sequel to the much-loved Mia the Meek, readers
will again enjoy spending time with Mia Fullerton, watching
as she navigates the next stage of adolescence, one humorous
and memorable fiasco at a time.
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About Eileen Boggess
 Eileen
Boggess, author of Mia the Meek (Bancroft
Press, 2006), is a former middle school teacher with a Master’s Degree
in Middle Level Education. A native Iowan, Eileen currently lives in Urbandale,
IA with her husband and two children. Besides teaching a children’s
literature course and supervising student teachers at Upper Iowa University,
Eileen also enjoys spending her days traveling to schools for author visits,
where she laughs and learns with the students. (To learn more about Eileen’s
school visits and forthcoming books, please visit her website www.eileenboggess.com.)
An enthusiastic member of the Iowa chapter of the Society of Children’s
Book Writers and Illustrators, Eileen is presently working on several young
adult manuscripts, including Mia the Mooch, the third installment in
the Mia Fullerton series.
Read praise for the first
book.
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