num_pages: 160
description: Lauren Allen's life is the pits. Bobby Taylor's just jilted her. Her ninth-grade teachers are demerit-crazy. And she has to share her bedroom with messy younger sister who wants to be a stand-up comic, while her older sister seems to get everything she wants. Between her parents, her two sisters, and school, Lauren feels she's got no rights at all.But then Lauren takes a course - "Law for Children and Young People" - and meets Zack, an eighth grader who's "nice and attractive and bright and funny."Suddenly Lauren realizes that there are solutions to her problems. She can protest unfair policies at school. She can stand up to the kids who call her a cradle robber for going out with Zack. And she can sue her parents for malpractice...can't she?
language: English
title: Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
titlecomplete: Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
genres: Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Romance, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1036
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult & for Middle School/Junior High (1983)
publisher: Puffin Books