A clever read about a seventh-grade boy named Bingo Brown. From the back cover blurb: "Melissa, the girl Bingo loves, has moved to the end of the world: Bixby, Oklahoma. Cici, a big blonde with a big crush, is moving in on Bingo. Billy "Worm Brain" Wentworth is stuck on Cici--and on getting Bingo to transform him from Rambo to Romeo. Life as a heartbreaker is hard...but leave it to Bingo, the master of the mixed-sex conversation, to translate the language of love." And from the New York Times Book Review: "If there is such a thing as a typical American kid, Bingo Brown is it. He is funny and bright and lovable without being precocious, and Betsy Byars has demonstated a special creative genius in pulling off this delicate balancing act." The Puffin edition is 132 pages and has line drawings by Cathy Boback.

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