Jessica the Nerd

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Bantam Books, 1992 - Juvenile Fiction - 136 pages
Jessica Wakefield is humiliated when she finds out she's been accepted into a special program called SOAR!, for gifted math and science students. Along with her twin sister, Elizabeth, Jessica must go to special science classes every day with some of the biggest nerds at Sweet Valley Middle School.


Then a strange thing happens -- Jessica discovers that she actually likes SOAR! But Jessica's friends in the Unicorn Club aren't happy about her new interests. They tell Jessica she must choose: SOAR! or the Unicorns!

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Section 1
1
Section 2
9
Section 3
19
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About the author (1992)

Francine Pascal grew up in New York City and attended New York University. She is the author of the Sweet Valley High series, featuring twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. She had originally planned the idea for a daytime soap for teens, but a close friend talked her into making the idea into a book series instead. Pascal has also written "Hangin' Out with Cici, which became an ABC After School Special called "My Mother Was Never a Kid", "The Hand-Me-Down Kid," also made into an ABC After School Special, "My First Love and Other Disasters," and "Love and Betrayal & Hold the Mayo." She has also worked on a musical and several adult books, and is the executive director for the Sweet Valley High TV show.

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