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    Boy, Oh Boy!
    Boy, Oh Boy!
    Boy, Oh Boy!
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    Boy, Oh Boy!

    By Laura Dower

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    Madison must balance a confusing class election with thoughts of her first crush
    Madison Finn couldn’t be happier when she’s picked to work on Far Hills Junior High’s election website. She can’t wait to focus on the website instead of her parents’ divorce and her first-ever crush. When her best friend Aimee decides to give their nemesis, Poison Ivy, some competition for class president, Madison knows the election will get heated. But Madison never thought that a cyber crasher would mess with the site’s candidate profiles. Worst of all, everyone thinks Madison is to blame. Now that she’s in the hot seat, she’d better fix it—fast! 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781480422537
    Boy, Oh Boy!
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    Laura Dower

    Author Laura Dower has a lot in common with Madison Finn: They’re both only children and they both love dogs, the color orange, and books! Laura has written more than ninety kids’ books to date, including twenty-five in the series From the Files of Madison Finn. Her other books include the new Palace Puppies series and For Girls Only, a guide to girl stuff. When she’s not writing, Laura loves to garden, sing (loudly), and volunteer as a scout leader for her daughter and two sons. She and her family live in New York. Want to be keypals? Drop her a note at www.lauradower.com.  

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      Madison moved to California and made some new friends. She was put in charge of the website for her new school's election. Find out how this effects her. -KL

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    Boy, Oh Boy!

    From the Files of Madison Finn, Book 2

    Laura Dower

    For my brother, Andrew MacTaggart, who is still destined for great things

    Contents

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Chapter 11

    Chapter 12

    Chapter 13

    Chapter 14

    Mad Chat Words

    Madison’s Computer Tip

    Preview: Play It Again

    About the Author

    Chapter 1

    FIFTEEN MINUTES INTO THE start of the school day, and Madison Finn had already chewed off all the orange glitter polish on her left hand. It was one of Madison’s thirty or so nervous habits, right up there on the list next to sweating when she tried to play the flute and fleeing the scene when she was embarrassed. She was very skilled at fleeing.

    Mrs. Wing stood in front of the classroom. Here in the twenty-first century, technology teacher and librarian have morphed into one happy being, she said. Just call me super-cybrarian, kids.

    "Uh, that’s Mrs. Cybrarian to us, right?" Egg (a.k.a. Walter Diaz) said aloud, his voice warbling.

    Mrs. Wing smiled. Yes, Mr. Diaz! Now, last week we talked about how a digital portfolio is made. Mrs. Wing stood up at a lectern in front of the class. She always stood there, sometimes leaning on her elbows. The beads around her neck would jangle and clink as they hit the smaller podium. "I know everyone can text with one finger and play Monkeyvilla with another one. But I also want you to know how computers really work—how hardware is assembled and how code tells a computer what to do. Mr. Diaz has been kind enough to explain some of these things to us."

    She glanced over to Egg’s desk and he grinned a real Grinchy grin.

    Anything for you, Mrs. Wing, he said.

    Madison flared her nostrils. The only thing she hated more than Egg’s constant crushing on teachers was when he was being extra cocky. Today he was doing both!

    Ever since Madison and Egg were kids, he had crushed on pretty female teachers. First it was kindergarten’s Miss Jeremiah; now it was the seventh-grade cybrarian.

    Mrs. Wing fit into Egg’s crush category perfectly. She was prettier than pretty, Madison thought. Her long hair was swept up into a French twist and she wore a long plum-colored skirt, a neat white blouse, and a red bead necklace. She moved around the room as if she were walking on cotton balls, floating from computer station to station, beads plink-plink-plinking together.

    Now, what I’d like to review with the class are some basic computer skills, Mrs. Wing continued. And then I think we will be all ready to move ahead and test-drive some of the many terrific applications available to us online.

    Lance, a quiet kid who always sat at the back of the classroom, raised his hand and shook his head, dejected. He didn’t get computers and felt way left out. He was not ready. Not by a long jump. Or was it a shot put?

    Madison shot Egg a glance, but, thankfully, Mrs. Wing said she’d explain it again later.

    There are so many ways to manipulate information digitally, Mrs. Wing went on. You can build a whole universe on a web page. Just think about using technology to express yourself. Think about what that could do for all of you. Go way beyond your games and instant pics … become a technological pioneer!

    The classroom let out a cheer.

    Madison chuckled at the go beyond your games and instant pics comment. Madison and her Mom took plenty of posed selfies when they were in Brazil that summer.

    Looking around, I can see already that I have a classroom filled with technological wizards, Mrs. Wing commented. "And yes, even you, Lance."

    He smirked and someone on the other side of the room snorted. Madison realized it was Egg’s best friend, Drew Maxwell. He always laughed at the wrong moments. And as soon as he’d snorted, Egg snorted too. And then this kid P.J. Rigby snorted. And then Jason Szelewski, Beth Dunfey, Suresh Dhir—everyone snorted.

    It sounded like a pig farm!

    Mrs. Wing didn’t get mad, though. She just sort of snorted right back.

    "Well, I can see we’ll be having a lot of fun in here, class. Just let’s make sure it’s not at someone else’s expense, okay?"

    Madison saw Egg making puppy-dog eyes at the back of Mrs. Wing’s head when she said that. Turning away, Madison plugged in her personal flash drive and booted up her files.

    Class Notes

    Nothing at Far Hills Junior High is what I expected. I thought it would be way different than middle school. NOT. I figured there was no way the same people from Far Hills Elementary would be geeks or popular but that is just the way it is, like the same thing as last year but in a different building. Dad says I always overthink this kind of stuff but it’s just so hard to hold back a thought sometimes.

    Mrs. Wing is sooo smart, so she probably will catch me right now writing personal stuff, and not school stuff but oh well. She’s all the way on the other side of the room.

    I like the way her beads look like red jelly beans. I wear a ring on almost every single finger, but I don’t go for necklaces so much. Maybe I should?

    Something about seventh grade was inspiring Madison. With a new laptop and the e-reader Dad got for her birthday, maybe she could become a techno-queen.

    Mrs. Wing’s so cool, right? Egg nudged Madison and stared as Mrs. Wing flew around to the other side of the classroom.

    Madison looked down at her desk. Egg was just embarrassing.

    Egg, Madison whispered back. Aren’t you bored? We know this stuff already.

    Bored? Nope! Egg replied, pie-eyed. "What do you want? More work?"

    Madison sneered. Don’t you want to learn something new?

    Learn? Geesh, you sound like a mom, Egg’s pal Drew butted in.

    Yeah, Egg said, copying him. "You sound like my mom!"

    Madison growled.

    The two boys pretended to be really scared; then they laughed and high-fived each other.

    Well at least I don’t have a crush on someone who acts like my mom, Madison blurted—a little too loudly.

    Shhhh! Drew suddenly warned, yanking Egg’s fleece. Incoming.

    Mrs. Wing had heard the ruckus. She was headed back toward their computer stations.

    Mr. Diaz. Miss Finn. Mr. Maxwell … Problem here? Mrs. Wing asked.

    Madison and Egg looked at their monitors and grunted at the same time in the same monotone. No, Mrs. Wing. No problem.

    Then she looked over at Drew.

    He tried not to react. But it’s hard to hold back a snort.

    Do I need to separate you three? Mrs. Wing said, tapping her foot. Madison thought she would stay like that forever, huffing and puffing and looking disappointed, but in less than a minute she gave up. Mrs. Wing had to help Lance, who was lost in Basic again.

    Madison glared at Drew and Egg. Don’t get me in trouble, guys!

    Maddie, you are a stress puppy, Egg said. Drew nodded in agreement.

    Madison gave them both another nasty look and they all went back to their computer screens.

    Of course Madison was overly sensitive these days to begin with. She missed her parents. Both of them were gone for work this week.

    Dad was out of town on business, all the way across the country. He was meeting with the design firm that had helped set up his Web site. He was launching a new business again. Madison couldn’t remember what exactly it was going to be.

    Mom had left yesterday. She’d headed overseas on a business trip for Budge Films, a movie production company that made small nature documentaries. During the summer, Madison had been able to travel along with her mom on another journey—to South America—to film rare tree frogs. But there was no more traveling allowed together now, not during school days.

    Mom always said, You have more important things to take care of during the school year, Maddie. Like getting your junior high diploma.

    So while Mom was meeting with lots of French people and eating plates of pommes frites, Madison stayed put in Far Hills. She and her dog, Phin, were camped out for the duration at Aimee’s house.

    Staying at Aimee’s was a treat. Aimee Anne Gillespie wasn’t just Madison Francesca Finn’s best friend. Madison liked to think of her as a sister. They had known each other since birth.

    Um, Mrs. Wing? Could you help me out with this? Egg was mooning in the teacher’s direction again. Madison wanted to gag. He may have acted all tough and smart, but in computer class Egg was definitely soft-boiled.

    While the rest of the class continued working on their assignment, Madison tried to sneak online. The system connected, but she couldn’t get on to her favorite site, TweenBlurt.com.

    No Access! See your Cybrarian!

    On these classroom computers, there were built-in blocks preventing students from online access except at designated times. Madison knew Mrs. Wing had put up all the blocks. She knew how to keep everyone focused on the assignment and only the assignment—didn’t she?

    This was going to be a long week.

    Madison could feel the low dull ache that burns inside when you really, really miss someone.

    And it wasn’t just Mom or Dad.

    Madison missed her purple blow-up chair, her file cabinet, her miles of files, and all her other stuff. Madison missed the way her bare feet felt on Mom’s wood floors and the way the kitchen table rocked on one side when you leaned on it. She missed the way her pug Phinnie liked to curl up in front of the dishwasher during the dry cycle.

    Right now, thinking about it too much, Madison missed everything about home. Or at least about the way home had used to be, when Mom and Dad were still together.

    Psssst! Drew suddenly whispered over to Madison. Are you having trouble getting online?

    Madison nodded. She was having all kinds of trouble. But she was glad to know she wasn’t the only one bored with the assignment.

    I know a secret back entrance, he said, still whispering so Mrs. Wing couldn’t hear. "I can tell you the secret password that only the teachers

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