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Also by Megan McCafferty:

Perfect Fifths, January 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
Second Helpings, July 2021
Trade Size
Sloppy Firsts, May 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Mall, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
True to Your Selfie, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Bumped, April 2011
Hardcover
Fourth Comings, August 2007
Hardcover
Charmed Thirds, April 2006
Hardcover
Second Helpings, April 2003
Paperback
Sloppy Firsts, August 2001
Paperback

SECOND HELPINGS
By: Megan McCafferty

Senior Year at High School

Three Rivers Press
April 2003
Featuring: Jessica Darling
368 pages
ISBN: 0609807919
Paperback
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Young Adult Romance

“Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide spirit this year... The only difference between Christmas 2001 and Christmas 2000 is that I don’t have a visit from Hope to look forward to. And Bethany has already packed on some major fetal flab. Oh, and now Gladdie doesn’t need to ask a bizillion questions about my boyfriend, because she’s already gotten the dirt from you know who.”

Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to Sloppy Firsts. This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and she can’t seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica’s parents won’t get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany’s pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household.

With keen intelligence, sardonic wit, and ingenious comedic timing, Megan McCafferty again re-creates the tumultuous world of today’s fast-moving and sophisticated teens. Fans of Sloppy Firsts will be reunited with their favorite characters and also introduced to the fresh new faces that have entered Jess’s life, including the hot creative writing teacher at her summer college prep program and her feisty, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother Gladdie. But most of all, readers will finally have the answers to all of their burgeoning questions, and then some: Will Jessica crack under the pressure of senioritis? Will her unresolved feelings for Marcus wreak havoc on her love life? Will Hope ever come back to Pineville? Fall in love with saucy, irreverent Jessica all over again in this wonderful sequel to a book that critics and readers alike hailed as the best high school novel in years.

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