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McNeal, Laura and Tom McNeal.
ZIPPED
New York : Knopf, 2003
IL YA
ISBN 0375814914
Mick is just your average 15-year-old sophomore living a pretty good life.  He lives with his father and stepmother.  Although he knows plenty of kids who don't get along with their stepparents, he doesn't have that problem.  He and Nora get along great.  He can talk to her about anything.  Even his crush on Lisa Doyle.  Nora seems to understand and finds a way for Mick to meet Lisa.  Not a bad life.  But then everything starts to fall apart.  Just because of his school paper.  You see, he couldn't find it on the computer so started to look through other files.  He found a folder of Nora's deleted email in the trash and decided to look through it to see if maybe his school paper was there.  What he found would change everything.  He found emails that prove Nora is having an affair.  What should Mick do about it?  Should he do anything?  He copies the files onto a disk that he keeps zipped in his coat pocket.  What will he do with this evidence?
SUBJECTS:     Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
                        Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
                        New York (State) -- Fiction.

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