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Lola Zuckerman hates being last for everything. If only she were Lola Adams or Lola Appleby or anything but Z for Zuckerman. And she is having a particularly hard time right now. Her best friend Amanda Anderson is now her ex-best friend. Her grandparents have moved back to Texas, and her mother is launching a new career. Why is everything always changing? What would make things much, much better is if Lola were to win the Going-Green Contest at school and beat Amanda Anderson, who is determined to win first place too. How can Lola, who is always last, prove that she's not least?
Lola Zuckerman is always last, but she wants to come in first place in the Going Green contest at school to prove she can to her ex-best-friend, Amanda Anderson, who is always first. Book #1
First publish date: 2013
Authors: Christine Pakkala
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