Crusader, Edward Bloor

Roberta works at her family's virtual reality arcade in a failing mall. Her father is never home, but she tries not to let on. Roberta wants to be a reporter, so she tries to find out who's been committing hate crimes around the mall.

But there are other things she has a much harder time facing..

This was really good. Some of it was kind of implausible, but what the hell.

Dear Dumb Diary, The Problem With Here is That it's Where I'm From; Jim Benton

Jamie decides that she wants a foreign accent. She's also thrilled when kids from another school are bussed over to hers because of an emergency.

Really funny.