Lara Zany is known throughout the school yard as the Friendship Matchmaker-kids call on her expertise and follow her hard-and-fast rules to find best friendships. Lara's documented everything from friendship categories (the BOBF, or Bus Only Best Friend; the TL, or Total Loner; the LBC, or Loner By Choice) to strategies (BJF, or the Bungee Jump Friend; FTFP, or Field Trip Faux Pas). But when new kid in school Emily Wong questions Lara's methods, the two decide to compete by each finding a TL a best friend. But Lara, an LBC, doesn't bank on finding her own best friendship in the most unlikely of places. . . . In the tradition of "Clueless," this reimagining of Jane Austen's "Emma "for middle school readers is a funny and heartwarming story of celebrating individuality and finding acceptance.

Author Biography

RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH is the author of the YA novels "Does My Head Look Big in This?," "Ten Things I Hate About Me, "and "Where the Streets Had a Name." Her books are published around the world and she regularly gives talks and workshops at schools and writers' festivals. Randa lives in Sydney, Australia, where she works as a litigation lawyer and is also a human rights activist. www.randaabdelfattah.com