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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters QUOTES

1 " But let’s face it: Understanding me—I mean, really understanding me and my nutty life—isn’t so easy. That’s why it’s so hard for me to find people I can trust. The truth is, I don’t know who I can trust. So mostly I don’t trust anybody. Except my mom, Jules. (Most of the time, anyway.) "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

2 " The next morning, Mom set two plates of scrambled eggs in front of me and Georgia and then sat down to watch us eat. She loves to watch us eat, which I totally don’t get. I mean, she works at a diner. She watches people eat all day long. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

3 " These are the cafeteria ladies. I call them Millie, Billie, and Tilly. I think they’re part of a government program to get rid of the middle school population in this country, one lunch at a time. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

4 " DID YOU JUST CALL ME A LOSER?” Bear roared back. “No, I called myself a loser,” I said, and slammed my door. “Loser. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

5 " Then you’re a big loser, you don’t get to finish the game, and the rest of the year will be about as much fun as a case of never-ending diarrhea, "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

6 " So anyway, ta-da, here it is, book fans, and all of you in need of AR points at school, "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

7 " Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your ’rents? Says your sibs? "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

8 " This is what I actually looked like when I got to school that first morning of sixth grade. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

9 " so imagine the day your great-great-grandmother was born. Got it? Now go back another hundred years or so. And then another hundred. That’s about when they built Hills Village Middle School. Of course, I think it was a prison for Pilgrims back then, but not too much has changed. Now it’s a prison for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

10 " You’ve already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher’s desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller the Killer, to "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

11 " And because I’m the world’s biggest idiot sometimes, I didn’t look back when I went to sit in my chair. Which is why I hit the dirt as I went down—all the way down—to the floor. The good news? Given the way things had started off, I figured middle school could only get better from here. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

12 " By the time we got to Section 6 (“Grounds for Expulsion”), my brain was turning into guacamole, and I’m pretty sure my ears were "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

13 " And I pulled the alarm. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

14 " Everyone remain calm! Line up with your teachers and proceed in an orderly fashion to the nearest exits.” I’m not sure who she was talking to. It looked like the whole school was already out here in the hall. And in the parking lot. And on the soccer field. And on the basketball courts. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

15 " I opened up my copy of the Code of Conduct and turned to Section 11, Rule 3: “Students shall not tamper with smoke or fire alarms under any circumstances.” Then I took Leo’s pen and drew a line right through it. That felt pretty good too. One rule down and… well, all the rest to go. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

16 " School was unbelievable,” I said. “I kind of, well, sort of, met this amazing girl, and then I set off the fire alarm during an assembly—” Okay, that’s not what I really said, but it wouldn’t have mattered if I did. Bear’s not exactly a good listener. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

17 " Don’t worry, I didn’t forget I’m a loser, Loser,” I said as I zoomed down the hall. “DID YOU JUST CALL ME A LOSER?” Bear roared back. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

18 " Now Mom was working double shifts at the diner all the time just to make enough money, and Bear was spending 99 percent of his time on our couch, except maybe to go to the bathroom or to collect his stupid unemployment check. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

19 " of all, it needed a name. I thought about it for a while and came up with Operation R.A.F.E., which stands for: Rules Aren’t For Everyone "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters

20 " I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into some serious trouble, so I decided to make that worth a bunch of points too. "

― James Patterson , Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters