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  “Close enough,” I said.

  “You are so weird.”

  After Sunny explained the basics, I started working on the first problem. I have to admit it felt really good to actually have a clue what I was doing, for once. Out of the corner of my eye I saw my sister gazing around the room.

  “So this is detention, huh?” she finally asked me. “It’s not so bad . . . kinda like our very own little club!”

  I looked over at Drew—he was smiling at me. I turned back to Sunny.

  “Something like that,” I told her.

  Acknowledgments

  Words can’t express the level of gratitude I feel for my editor, Donna Bray, but let’s give it a go. . . . Punctual? Nice phone-voiced? Better than adequate? I’m also indebted to her cheerful underlings, Ruta Rimas and Jordan Brown, and I’d like to thank Alessandra Balzer and everyone else over at Balzer Plus Bray. And I wouldn’t even be working with them if it weren’t for Steve Malk. Lastly, I’d like to thank my friends and family, for being there for me when other peoples’ friends and families weren’t.

  About the Author

  DAVID YOO is the author of the teen novels STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE and GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST. He is also a contributor to GUYS READ: FUNNY BUSINESS. He spends his spare time staring unblinking (in either wonder or abject horror) at his newborn son, Griffin. David lives in Massachusetts, where he teaches in the MFA program at Pine Manor College and at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. To See the creepiest-looking cat in the history of mankind, check out www.daveyoo.com.

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  Jacket art © 2011 by Dan Santat

  Jacket design by Jennifer Rozbruch

  Copyright

  The Detention Club

  Copyright © 2011 by David Yoo

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Yoo, David, date.

  The detention club / by David Yoo. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Sixth-grader Peter Lee, in a desperate attempt to regain the popularity he had in elementary school, discovers that serving detention can win him important friends, much to the dismay of his over-achieving eighth-grade sister, Sunny.

  ISBN 978-0-06-178378-4 (trade bdg. : alk. paper)

  [1. Middle schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Popularity—Fiction. 5. Conduct of life—Fiction. 6. Korean Americans—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.Y8155Det 2011

  [Fic]—dc22

  2010046211

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  EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062084453

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