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Author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner is the award-winning creator of the EngiNerds series of Middle Grade novels, the Geeger the Robot series of early chapter books, the activity books Give This Book a Title and Give This Book a Cover, The Hunger Heroes series of graphic novel chapter books, and the Nat the Cat series of early readers. Jarrett is also the creator of the illustrated novel in verse A Work in Progress, as well as several as-yet-unannounced projects. All of Jarrett’s books are published by Simon & Schuster. In addition to writing, drawing, and visiting schools and libraries across the country, Jarrett co-founded and co-organizes the #KidsNeedBooks and #KidsNeedMentors projects, and regularly spearheads fundraisers for various reading- and book-related causes. He is also the founder and operator of Jarrett Lerner’s Creator Club. He can be found at jarrettlerner.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @Jarrett_Lerner. He lives with his wife and daughters in Massachusetts.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT��The Durham District School Board acknowledges that many Indigenous Nations have long standing relationships, both historic and modern, with the territories upon which our school board and schools are located. ‎Today, this area is home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that the Durham Region forms a part of the traditional and treaty territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, the Mississauga Peoples and the treaty territory of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation. It is on these ancestral and treaty lands that we teach, learn and live.

How you look defines who you are.	Agree	Disagree
Friends have most things in common.	Agree	Disagree
You can control what you eat and when you eat.	Agree	Disagree
You are a work in progress.	Agree	Disagree
We all have something we are good at.	Agree	Disagree
How we dress tells the world who we are.	Agree	Disagree
Who you are now is who you always will be.	Agree	Disagree
Practice makes perfect.	Agree	Disagree

Scowling, p.2	Barrelled, p.13	Sneer, p.23
Committed, p.4	Stall, p.13	Grateful, p.26
Stunned, p.6	Cramped, p.13	Oblivious, p.26
Fled, p. 7	Relieved, p.15	Drift, p.32
Permanently, p. 8	Incident, p.16	Former, p.33
Inferior, p.10	Downer, p.18	Linger, p. 44
Consideration, p.10	Generous, p.18	Dawdle, p.44
Hurling, p.11	Disgust, p. 21	Hunch, p. 46

Squirm, p.48	Linger, p.63	Grate, p. 78
Scrawled, p.49	Crook (of arm), p.69	Fastened, p.80
Starving, p.50	Sloggin, p.72	Overwhelm, p.85
Protectively, p.57	Flicking, p.76	Pathetic, p.86
Clumsy, p.62	Bulges, 77	Blissful, p.87
Fascinated, p.63	Shrunk, p.77	Surrounded, p.97

Winced, p.109	Verging, p.128	Obliterated, p.153
Off-kilter, p.111	Humongous, p.137	Auditorium, p. 155
Glanced, p. 121	scraped, p.146	Suspicious, p. 159
Devour, p.122	Clenching, p. 152	gulps , p. 161
Squirmed, p.127	Squinching, p.152	Ramming, p. 162
Bland, p.128	Distract, p.152	Wardrobe, p. 170

Skittering, p. 175	Dumbfounded, p. 202
Clacked, p. 178	Dumbfounded, p.203
Soaring, p. 182	Peer, p. 218
Confident, p. 183	Grimacing, p. 223
Swerving, p. 193
Legit, p.201

I see…	I wonder...	I think….

Glared, p. 226
Teeters, p. 244

Wobble, p. 309
Ecstatic, p. 312
Consumed, p. 354

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