Title: Sorry you're lost
Description: "A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--

New Jersey seventh grader and class clown Denny Murphy has just lost his mother, his father is uncommunicative, he is in trouble with his teachers, and to top it all off, his best friend has a scheme to get dates for the end-of-year school dance.
Subjects: Social Issues, Young adult fiction, Conduct of life, Middle schools, Popularity, Fiction, Parents, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence, Friendship, School stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Death & Dying, Family, JUVENILE FICTION, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship, Fathers and sons, Father-son relationship, Grief, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents, Dating (Social customs), Schools, Juvenile fiction, Death & Dying, Adolescence, Children's fiction, Grief, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Popularity, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction