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  “I’m so sorry I’m late.” Sara-Beth glided across the room. She suddenly seemed so easygoing and social that even I couldn’t imagine her crouching behind the sofa, clutching an air horn and wearing my pajama pants. “Do you mind if I jump into the game?” She perched on the arm of Eric’s chair, and he stared up at her without blinking, like she was an angel or a vision or something. “How do you play?”

  Meanwhile, Meredith and Judith were completely speechless. If they’d been thrilled to meet my brother, they were ecstatic now. With their mouths open and their eyes bugged out, they might as well have been a pair of goldfish.

  “How do you know Flan?” asked Jules, the only one in the room—other than me, of course—who wasn’t in immediate danger of swooning.

  “Oh, we’ve been friends for ages,” said Sara-Beth. “But now, I guess you could say we’re neighbors.”

  “Neighbors?” I asked. I wondered if she was still planning to hide out in one of my closets.

  “I just finished moving into the town house right across the street. Isn’t that fabulous? It’ll be just like you said: we’ll have a little bit of space, but we’ll still get to spend oodles of time together! In fact, I plan to be over here every afternoon after school. Won’t it be wonderful, Flan? You’ll do your homework—I’ll learn my lines. We’ll be bona fide best friends!”

  Meredith and Judith both let out delighted little gasps, but I just shook my head and laughed. My life was doomed to be crazy—I knew that now. But it was okay, because I also knew that was just the way I liked it.

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  Flan Flood finally has her life in order. Her new, normal friends from school get along with her celebrity starlet friends, and she couldn’t be happier being Just Flan.

  But as life is settling down, Flan’s friends Judith and Meredith fall for the same guy: hot quarterback Adam, whose smile is as winning as his throwing arm. And when Flan’s BFF, teen-starlet Sara-Beth Benny, decides to throw a Halloween party, both of Flan’s friends vow to kiss their football prince by midnight at the big bash.

  Suddenly, Flan finds herself in the middle of an all-out battle for Adam’s attention. Can Flan convince Meredith and Judith that girlfriends are way more important than any guy, or will Flan find herself dangerously stuck in the middle?

  “I wish I’d known Flan Flood in high school—and not just because she has a hot older brother with hot older friends (although that totally helps). Don’t let the name fool you—this is one girl you must get to know, now.”

  —Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique

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  Find out how it all began in the Insiders series, also by J. Minter

  “The Insiders are the guys to watch. But if you fall

  in love with them, get in line, right behind ME!”

  —Zoey Dean, author of The A-List

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  Copyright © 2007 by J. Minter

  and 17th Street Productions, an Alloy company

  All rights reserved.

  You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce, or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means (including without limitation electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, printing, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

  This electronic edition published in November 2012

  Published by Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Minter, J.

  Inside girl : a novel / by J. Minter. —1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Flan Flood, younger sister of the handsome and popular Patch, just wants to fit in when she starts high school in New York City, but her crazy friends Liesel, Sara-Beth, and Philippa make it anything but easy for her.

  [1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Popularity—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction.

  4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.

  6. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.S3872Imm 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2006028190

  First U.S. Edition 2007

  eISBN: 978-1-6196-3016-1 (e-book)