Can You Spell Revolution? (HarperCollins Canada, Fall 2006)
 

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Synopsis
   
Just another revolting day at Laverton Jr. High: A funny, quirky young reader novel from the author of Getting to First Base With Danalda Chase

Clouds McFadden is definitely different. With his shock of red hair, his disarming manner, and an opening greeting of “Good day, fellow proletariats,” this transfer student to Laverton Junior High looks ready to shake the boredom from his adopted grade eight class. Which is fine with Chris, who, quite frankly, is tired of tyrannical teachers, cool girl cliques and boring work. When Clouds proposes to Chris and a select group of other grade eights that they can change their school world for the better with just a little revolutionary zeal, everyone gets into the act. Inspired by historical figures, the group manages to humiliate a nitpicking teacher through the use of a secret tape recorder (known as operation “Code: Nixon”), infiltrate the cool girls’ club (“Code: Queen Elizabeth”) and stage a passive resistance to boring note taking (“Code: Gandhi”). But then Clouds goes too far in his desire for revenge on Principal Dorfman—and the revolution takes a frighteningly real turn.



   
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