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  Now whenever anyone insists it’s impossible for things to change, I take them on a tour of the kingdom of Big Mess. First, we stop at my locker for a look at my photo collage of miracles. Then we stroll past Dijon’s beauty board, which is still up, though the messages are a bit different these days. Finally, we head to the cafeteria to see my faces on the big wall. That usually does the trick.

  Poof!

  I’ve been giving that tour a lot lately.

  Well, I couldn’t very well stop with Renata, could I? Once you’ve seen row after row after row of nice, neat, never-make-trouble Nobodies, there’s no turning back. Not counting the five of us, there are 127 Nobodies in the eighth grade alone. I know because we stayed up late at Fawn’s sleepover counting every single one.

  Good thing my dad and I found a house this week. It has a big front porch.

  One hundred and twenty-seven Nobodies.

  I—we—have a long way to go.

  TRUDI TRUEIT knew she’d found her life’s passion after writing (and directing) her first play in the fourth grade. Since then she’s been a newspaper journalist, a television news reporter-anchor, and a public relations specialist, and she’s now a children’s book author. Trudi has published more than eighty fiction and nonfiction titles for young readers. She lives in Everett, Washington, with her husband and two cats (one feisty calico and one enormous ragdoll). Visit her website at www.truditrueit.com.

  ALADDIN M!X

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  Cover designed by Jessica Handelman

  Cover illustration copyright © 2012 by Suzanne Sales

  Ages 9-13

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  GET IN THE M!X!

  HAVE YOU READ ALL THE M!X BOOKS?

  TRAUMA QUEEN

  THE HOT LIST

  SOLVING ZOE

  JUST ANOTHER DAY IN MY INSANELY REAL LIFE

  THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON

  FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF

  D IS FOR DRAMA

  ODD GIRL IN

  SEEING CINDERELLA

  RUBY’S SLIPPERS

  NICE AND MEAN

  THE SECRET IDENTITY OF DEVON DELANEY

  DEVON DELANEY SHOULD TOTALLY KNOW BETTER

  FOUR TRUTHS AND A LIE

  RULES FOR SECRET KEEPING

  JUST ADD MAGIC

  TRADING FACES

  TAKE TWO

  DOUBLE FEATURE

  CLASS FAVORITE

  TOTAL KNOCKOUT

  BFF BREAKUP

  COMMERCIAL BREAKS #1: FAMOUS FOR THIRTY SECONDS

  COMMERCIAL BREAKS #2: PICTURE PERFECT

  COMMERCIAL BREAKS #3: DRAMATIC PAUSE

  CANTERWOOD CREST SERIES

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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