Ashley Templeton Is Ruining My Life

t's clear that this is not the seventh grade that Kyle Reedy had planned. He can deal with the yeti-sized Ross Wilkie, who harasses Kyle like it's his job. Kyle can accept the fact that he made a mistake in filling out the form for his school's required community service. (Yes, he'd planned to be stocking shelves in the food pantry, which sounded pretty easy, and instead he discovered he'd be on scooper duty at the local greyhound rescue.) But the part that he can't handle, the part that is absolutely wrong, is what happens in band. Kyle, who loves making music more than anything else, learns on the first day that the coveted seat in his band's first clarinet section, a seat that should be his, a seat that was destined to be his, has been given to someone else. Her. Ashley Templeton. And he's pretty sure that every single problem he's having is all her fault.[Middle Grade: Ages 8-12]