The Miraculous Makeover of Lizard Flanagan

**In her first year of middle school, tomboy Lizard Flanagan feels left out—her friends are growing up,  but all Lizard wants is to stay the same**

Twelve-year-old Lizard Flanagan can’t believe it when her best friend, Mary Ann, wears a skirt on their first day of middle school. What happened to shorts and dirty sneakers? Suddenly Mary Ann is starting to look and talk like those *girly* girls she and Lizard always made fun of in elementary school. What’s worse, all the sixth-grade girls are acting like they’ve caught some kind of terrible disease that makes them blush and giggle whenever a boy is around—and the boys are just as bad. All Lizard wants to do is throw around a football and hang out with her buddies, but something terrible has happened: They’ve all started “the Change,” and they’ve left her behind!

Lizard finds herself lost in a strange new world of tights, makeup, and middle school dances. Does maturity mean totally changing who she is? How can she grow up and still be herself?