Lucy knows that kissing Tom Lemmings behind the ball shed will make her a legend. But she doesn’t count on that quick clap of lips propelling her from coolest to lamest fourth grader overnight. Suddenly Lucy finds herself trapped in Dorkdom, where a diamond ring turns your finger green, where the boy you kiss hates you three days later, where your best friend laughs as you cry, where parents seem to stop liking you, and where baby sisters are born different. Now Lucy has a choice: she can be like her former best friend Becky, who would do anything to claim her seat at the cool table in the cafeteria, or Lucy can pull up a chair among the solo eaters - also known as the dorks. Still unsure, Lucy partners with super quiet Sam Righter on a research project about wolves. Lucy connects her own school hierarchy with what she learns about animal pack life - where some wolves pin down weaker ones just because they can, and others risk everything to fight their given place in the pack. Soon Lucy finds her third option: creating a pack of her own, even if it is simply a pack of dorks. Weaving tough issues, including bullying, loyalty, and disability, with a thread of snarky humor, family bonds, and fresh perspective, Pack of Dorks paints characters coming-of-age and coming-to-terms. Beth Vrabel’s stellar debut contemporary middle grade novel is sure to please fans of Jack Gantos, Elizabeth Atkinson, and Judy Blume.

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Listening Length	4 hours and 41 minutes
Author	Beth Vrabel
Narrator	Cassandra Morris
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	07 October 2014
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NLL8H2S
Best Sellers Rank	2,561 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Children's Books on Disability 2 in Children's Books on School 3 in Children's Books on Social Skills

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S. Howell

By turns hilarious, painful, & wise -- this is one book every middle schooler (and their parents) should read

Reviewed in the United States on 19 March 2018

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If I could change one thing about parenting, it would be to have it commonly accepted that parents & kids should keep reading books together well into middle school. My fifth grader and I both read Pack of Dorks this weekend (she first, me second) and it opened up so many excellent conversations about friendship, bullying, and having the courage to be your own person. By turns hilarious, painful, and wise, this book is above all real. It's so easy to relate to Lucy and Sam and April. We all know Beckys, and many of us have been Becky at one point in our lives.

I especially love how Beth Vrabel makes it clear that being a good friend is something you have to learn. You will make mistakes. Other people will hurt you by making mistakes of their own. The trick is to grow past it.

As my daughter told me when I asked her if she would have given Becky a second chance, "I think you have to give kids a second chance. And a third. And a fourth. You never know when they will actually start meaning it."

I don't know if I completely agree with her. But it's making for excellent conversations, and I'm learning a lot about how my daughter thinks and where she's at on her middle school journey. We may well be talking about this book and the lessons we can learn from it for days.

And that's one of the greatest things about reading books with your middle schoolers. It gives you a way to break open some of these deeply personal issues from a not so personal angle. Parenting would be so much harder without books like this one.

Britt Kay

Adorable and Powerful for All Ages

Reviewed in the United States on 12 September 2016

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Bullying is talked about all the time these days and several people have written about it with varying degrees of success.

Vrabel does an excellent job, though, with this sentimental and touching and heartbreaking story about Lucy---who is one of my favorite protagonists of the summer.

Lucy loses her popularity in the blink of an eye and her world is shattered, so she must go on a journey at school and at home to figure out the meaning of happiness and friendship.

I love her parents, her grandma, Sam (so much) and all the other supporting characters. This was cute and meaningful.

Bibi

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Reviewed in the United States on 5 January 2015

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This book has so many conflicts and themes reading it is like jumping into a pack of wolves. There's Lucy dealing with a new baby sister, born with Down's and at the same time trying desperately to fit into the cool group at school. Then there's Lucy making a fool of herself and unwittingly aligning herself with the dorks. Then there's Lucy trying to be strong for her family and grandma saving the day when she loses it. Not to mention all the amazing information about wolves that knit magically into the whole bully theme. And if that's not enough, the characters are amazingly real and believable and funny. I plan to recommend this book to a ton of fourth graders, only the really cool ones and not the bullies.

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SusanJ

Sweet, funny and full of heart

Reviewed in the United States on 3 October 2014

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I still remember the day 20 years ago when I was in sixth grade when a couple of the popular kids in my class followed me home from school, howling at me. I wish my 12-year-old self had had "Pack of Dorks" to read back then. It would've helped close my ears to their taunting and inspired me to form my own pack of like-minded underdogs. With one kiss at recess Lucy goes from being the coolest girl in class to an outcast. At home, her parents are distracted by the birth of Lucy’s little sister, who was born with Down Syndrome. Lucy is left to navigate her new-found status on her own, until she joins forces with the classmates she’d formerly looked down on. Beth Vrabel has done a fantastic job capturing the voices of elementary school -- from the bullies to the introverts to the assorted misfits in between -- and sharing a story that should resonate for anyone who's been on the receiving end (or the doling end) of schoolyard teasing. Both kids and adults alike will love Lucy’s wry observations of her teacher, parents and fellow classmates and will cheer her on as she learns the fulfillment of being herself. Lucy’s journey from Mean Girl to Every Girl is funny, sweet and full of heart. I can’t wait to read it with my two little girls when they’re older.

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Son LOVES these books!!!

Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2017

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My 13 Year old son, why typically hates to read anything that isn't on a video game or graphic novel, absolutely loved these books... He read them both in about 3-4 days and was greatly disappointed that there were not more books in the series!!

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