Nan Cappo

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Cheating Lessons

Read an excerpt from Cheating Lessons
When her quiz bowl team lands in a lucrative Michigan championship match, Bernadette is ecstatic, if shocked. Who’d have guessed they were so smart? But an incriminating proof of cheating that she was never meant to see compels her to act--even if it costs her every friend she has.

What reviewers said about Cheating Lessons:


“[Readers will] be frantically flipping the pages to see what Bernadette decides to do.”
--Twist

“Cappo tells an absorbing—and sharply funny—story…”
--Horn Book, starred review

“[Teens will] enjoy the great quotes and the witty talk, and they’ll be caught up in the Jeopardy!-like tension as well as the mystery of who’s cheating and why.”
--Booklist

“…a very exciting book with lots of plot twists…Suspense! I’d recommend this book to all teens.”
--VOYA

“This lively first novel dramatizes moral issues that are close to home…the humor and characterization are well developed…this enjoyable story will be popular [with] talented students.”
--School Library Journal


• Edgar Award Nominee for Best YA Mystery, 2002

• ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee, 2003

Teacher Magazine Recommended Review May 2002

• Junior Library Guild selection 2002

• Nebraska Golden Sower Nominee for Young Adults 2004-2005

• Volunteer State Book Award Nominee 2003-2004


Selected Work

Fiction
Read an excerpt from Cheating Lessons
Isn’t winning always right? Bernadette used to know.

“...absorbing—and sharply funny...”
--Horn Book Magazine



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