Smiles to Go (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Will Tuppence: The main character of this book. He is very geeky and awkward, but also incredibly smart. He's best friends with Mi-Su and BT, even though BT is the opposite of him, dangerous and bold. He falls head over heels for Mi-Su, and she sends him mixed feelings, which make him even more confused and awkward. He loves astronomy, and finds his little sister, Tabby, extremely annoying, but finds out that he loves her, no matter how annoying.
• Korbet Finn: A young boy who has a crush on Tabby. He is very wise when it comes to love, and Will often comes to ask for his advice on his relationship with Mi-Su.
• Mrs. Kelly: Mi-Su's mom. She's pretty care-free, and doesn't mind her daughter hanging around boys a lot.
• Anthony (BT) Bontempo: Will's best friend. Everybody calls him BT. He's usually late for monopoly games. He is very daring and bold, not ever caring what people care about him. He skated down Dead Man's Hill, but didn't make a big deal out of it; he is very laid back. he loves to skateboard, and sometimes sees his friends as geeky, and is never really serious around them, always joking and laughing, which often makes Will mad.
• Mi-Su: BT and Will's other best friend. She plays Monopoly every Friday with BT and Will. Even though she is as smart and as star-loving as Will is, she has a sense of humor, and finds BT playful and funny, much to the annoyance of Will, who has a crush on her.
• Tabby: Will's little sister who likes annoying him. She is in kindergarten. She has a not-so-secret admirer, named Korbet, who supposedly loves her, but the feeling is not mutual, and so she breaks his heart every day.

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• “"Ask her to the next dance."”

  Korbet

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• “Because everything is made of protons. And now we know that even protons don’t last forever. Therefore everything will disappear.”

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• smiles to go before I weep, And smiles to go before I weep.”

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• Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means

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• down until there was nothing on the floor but a pale mist of dust. He got down on his hands and knees and blew it away.

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• I was afraid of: high places, cramped places, dark places, thousand-leggers, speed, flying, death, change, time, pain, failure, criticism, roller coasters, train tracks, being wrong, being smelly, being late, being stupid, being rejected, black mambos, leeches, hantavirus, losing, deep water, uncertainty, being buried alive, being caught being afraid, myself…

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• flash that signaled the death of the proton, the moment when it ceased to be. Scientists around the world are speculating on the significance…” I couldn’t believe it. A proton was dead!

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• Every day I hold my breath until I see her. Sometimes in class, sometimes in the hallway. I can’t start breathing until I see her smile at me. She always does, but the next day I’m always afraid she won’t. At lunch I’m afraid she’ll smile more at BT than at me. I’m afraid she’ll look at him in some way that she doesn’t look at me. I’m afraid that when I go to bed at night I’ll still be wondering. I’m always afraid. Is that what love is—fear?

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• when we were all just friends and the biggest problem on Saturday nights was how many hotels to build on Park Place.

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• “Will…she’s too little to understand the best way to get you to love her. So she just does it her way.”

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• Everything is flying away from everything else…flying away…flying away…

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• Heaven
• Park Place
• Horsehead
• Black Viper

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1. Jerry Spinelli (Author)

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