Despite a slow start, the story becomes as much a whodunit as an examination of judging others based on assumptions. Like The Breakfast Club, each student carries a label by which they are automatically judged (the nerd, the princess, the jock, the weirdo, the screw-up), and this experimental gathering seeks to discover not only who destroyed Theo’s photographs but why. Having to go to school over break stinks, but circumstantial evidence surrounding vandalism brings six unhappy seventh-graders together for a justice circle facilitated by a favorite teacher. Potentially Sensitive Areas: Discrimination, Homophobic slur, Mild language But what is everyone hiding and will school ever be the same? That is until they realize they might get along after all, despite their differences. She calls it “Justice Circle.” The six students-the Nerd, the Princess, the Jock, the Screw Up, the Weirdo, and the Nobody-think of it as detention. Theo just wants to forget about the humiliating incident but his favorite teacher is determined to get to the bottom of it and has the six of them come into school over vacation to talk. When Theo’s photography project is mysteriously vandalized at school there are five suspected students who all say “it wasn’t me.” THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets middle school with a prank twist in this hilarious and heartwarming story about six very different seventh graders who are forced to band together after a vandalism incident.
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