OLDER FICTION
Strong, Jeremy

Stuff: The Life of a Cool Demented Dude

(3) YA Illustrated by Matthew S. Armstrong. In this British import, nice-guy Simon, nicknamed Stuff, struggles with a newly blended family and the arrival of Sky, the cute new girl at school. At his art teacher's prodding, Simon creates an anonymous fantasy comic strip (interspersed throughout the book) that allows him to work out his anxieties, gets him further into trouble, and still yields an honest-if-predictable happy ending.

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