Jared Mallard

46 pages

4 m, 8 w, 2 flexible, extras

Stan is a social pariah. He’s beat up at the school bus stop, never chosen for any team, and ignored every day at lunch. Then Chloe enrolls at the school. Being called names? No problem. She has flippant retorts and happily collects the offensive epithets in a notebook. Someone in her face? Her dad taught her how to physically twist a bully’s arm. Amid her tough, cool exterior, however, she also has compassion. Stan and Chloe become allies and gradually fall in love the way you do the first time, when you feel as if you have everything because of this one per...