The Detention Club [Paperback]

Detention: The best worst thing to happen to Peter Lee?

Peter and his best friend, Drew, used to be so cool (or at least, not total outcasts) in elementary school. But now they're in middle school, where their extensive mica collection and prowess at kick ball have earned them a new label: losers.

Things go from bad to worse when Peter gets detention. But what at first seems to spell his utter doom turns into an unlikely opportunity for making friends and influencing people. . . .

Detention: The best worst thing to happen to Peter Lee?

Peter and his best friend, Drew, used to be so cool (or at least, not total outcasts) in elementary school. But now they're in middle school, where their extensive mica collection and prowess at kick ball have earned them a new label: losers.

Things go from bad to worse when Peter gets detention. But what at first seems to spell his utter doom turns into an unlikely opportunity for making friends and influencing people. . . .

Yoo adds engaging subplots (a school thief, an invention contest) and realistic conflict (tension between Peter and Drew) to his laugh-out-loud, spot-on portrayal of middle-school life -The Horn Book

Praise for GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST: Very funny and bravely rendered. -Seattle Times

Praise for GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST: Funny, dark, and subversive. Beware: youll never be able to look at a guy the same way after you read this book. -Rachel Cohn, author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Yeah, [Peter and Drew are] nerdy, but not in an obnoxious way, and they actually have redemptive qualities: senses of humor that are sarcastic and self-effacing but not dark, and sensitivity for their fellow nerds, even if one of those nerds is a sister with whom one has shared a long history of enmity. Indeed, the family humor provides the brightest spark here. Readers familiar with Yoos YA work will be delighted and surprised by hl3Š