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Hamilton High: The DUFF

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Kody Keplinger, Author

Paperback

Series: Hamilton High

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Publication date: April 5, 2012

Category: Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781444903508

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Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is smart, cynical, loyal – and well aware that she’s not the hot one in her group of friends. But when high-school jock and all round moron Wesley Rush tells her she’s a DUFF – a Designated, Ugly Fat Friend – Bianca does not the see funny side. She may not be a beauty but she’d never stoop so low as to go anywhere near the likes of Wesley … Or would she? Bianca is about to find out that attraction defies looks and that sometimes your sworn enemies can become your best friends …

With a wry and tell-it-like-it-is voice, New York Times Bestselling novel The Duff is a witty and poignant story of a teenager struggling with the rules of high school attraction, along with the breaking down of her relationships with family and friends. It is a novel about what it means to be sexy, in a world where we feel we have to be perfect!

A Hamilton High School story from Kody Keplinger.

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Reviews

An earthy, realistic and compelling depiction of teenage relationships and self-image.

booktrust

An interesting and enjoyable read.

Teen Titles

Keplinger breathed some new life into the now horribly cliched idea of the love triangle by writing realistically flawed characters.

South Wales Evening Post (Swansea)

Kody Keplinger breathed some new life into the now horribly cliched idea of a love triangle by writing realistically flawed characters ... hilarious

South Wales Evening Post

An earthy, realistic and compelling depiction of teenage relationships and self-image

Book Trust

Written when the author herself was just 17, this debut novel has a bluntly honest edge ... compulsive reading, with a sassy heroine you'll find yourself rooting for against all the odds

We Love This Book

Sharp, hot, thoughtful, and searingly honest, The Duff is one of the best young adult novels to come along in a decade.

Elizabeth Scott, US author of the The Unwritten Rule.

Edgy and compelling. I couldn't put it down!

Simon Elkeles, New York Times best-selling author

A well written, irreverent, and heartfelt debut.

Publishers Weekly

Realistic, yet innocent at the same time.

Serendipity Reviews

Compulsive reading, with a sassy heroine you'll find yourself rooting for against all odds.

We Love This Book

An interesting and enjoyable read

Teen Titles

Kody Keplinger

Kody Keplinger is the author of several books for young adult and middle grade readers, including the New York Times bestseller The DUFF, which was adapted as a major motion picture in 2015. She currently lives in New York City with her German Shepherd and two black cats. Kody teaches writing classes at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. You can find out more at her website, kodykeplinger.com, or on Twitter, @Kody_Keplinger.