Love Me, Love My Broccoli

Eighth-grader Chloe Mankewicz won't eat meat or wear leather. She campaigns against experimenting with laboratory rats, refuses to dissect frogs at school, and rescues dogs in danger. If she isn't studying with her best friend, she is working for animal rights. Everything changes after Brett Ryan—a charming, hamburger-chomping football player—asks her out. Chloe begins cheering for the football team instead of leading animal rights rallies. And she makes a whole new set of friends that doesn't care what happens to helpless creatures. Will Chloe turn her back on all her beliefs? Award-winning novelist Julie Anne Peters has her finger on the pulse of middle school. She creates appealing, mischievous characters who could be found in classrooms across the nation. Narrator Julie Dretzin puts readers on the scene with Chloe and her energetic friends.