Young Adult Revisited

Carly Beth and Sabrina are best friends, but Carly Beth looks much younger and gets picked on by everyone, including her friend. While at lunch, two guys named Chuck and Steve sit with them. Since CB isn't in the mood for rubbery noodles, she accepts Chuck's offer of a sandwich, only to find out he hid a real worm inside. She runs off crying while everyone laughs at her. Steven then convinces her that his pet tarantula escaped and is climbing up her leg. When she goes crazy and starts screaming in the middle of school, he reveals it was all a prank. She then goes home and discovers that her mom made a realistic mask of her in art class. Though she swears it blinked at her, CB tries to blow it off. Her mom also made her a duck costume, which shes seems breathing and moving right before it attacks her. No worries though. It was just her little brother fooling around. All Carly Beth really wants is to find a costume so scary that it will send Chuck and Steve runni

Ginny and Denise are best friends, even though Ginny is a total plain Jane and Denise is supermodel hot. You might remember Denise from that book where Jessica convinced her she was too old for her boyfriend Jay, so that Jess could swoop in and steal him away, but I'm pretty sure Ginny never appeared in any other books, though I could be wrong. Ginny is incredibly shy and super nervous, but Denise convinces her that she should volunteer at the whole Project Youth thing, which she eventually does. On her very first day, she gets a call from this guy Mike. His dad died two years ago, and his mom recently announced that she was getting married again to some man he didn't even know she was dating. The day is now over at their house all the time, trying to act like Mike's dad and just generally being a huge pain. Ginny gives him the advice that anyone else would give, which is to talk to his mom. He does, it goes well, and he calls back to tell her and ask her out.