I Want Everybody to Like Me — Holly Jones

1990 was supposed to be the best year ever …or so small-town sixth-grader Violet Karchefski had planned -- but then boys (barf!) came into the picture and ruined everything.Can her friendship with BFF Sara come back from the brink after a boyfriend wedges himself between them? Will it survive Violet's obsession with Sara's older brother? A near kidnapping, family drama, temporary amnesia, some seriously backstabbing gossip and the unforgettable scent of Eternity for Men -- Violet has her work cut out for her if she's going to make everybody like her before the end of the year when middle school promises to bust it all apart. I Want Everybody To Like Me is the first in a series of uplifting, young adult coming-of-age throwbacks to the beginning of the last, most totally rad decade -- when disks were floppy, phones plugged into the wall, jeans were pegged, neon was king, and a mixtape recorded off the radio was the ultimate way to show how much you cared.