Blame it on Cody!!!!

For the record, it was Cody.

The voice crack during the morning announcements? Cody's fault, obviously. The forty-one-foot love poem? Cody. The bathroom foamed purple with Mom's Sugar Plum Shimmer shaving cream? Okay, that one was Alex.

It's spring of eighth grade, and everything is changing at once. Alex's jeans have turned into capris, a zit named Kevin has moved onto his forehead, and his big green monster is molting fuzz tumbleweeds and honking like a goose in a tuba. Even tiny Pocket is hiding a secret.

Then something starts growing under Granite Ridge Middle School. The Gunk is a gray-green ooze that smells like a wet gym bag and feeds on every secret kids are too embarrassed to say out loud. One by one, the whole eighth grade disappears into their hoodies.

To beat it, Alex will need Mom, Coach Hadley, the kid who called him "Capri," and a borrowed DJ microphone at the Under the Sea dance. It's going to get awkward. Out loud.

Funny, honest, and reassuring, The Puberty Monster? helps tweens and teens laugh their way through voice changes, body odor, growth spurts, crushes, mood swings, and every other awkward part of growing up. Along the way, they learn that the shame is the real monster, not them.

Book 2 in the Blame it on Cody!!!! series.