Overview

Annie Mercer O'Dell, what a surprise to see you in my office! Vice-Principal Daniel Kemmerick said with all the sarcasm he could muster. He shook his head, ran his fingers through his prematurely graying hair, then sat down heavily. Annie made direct eye contact, raised her hand in the air, used her most charming smile and said, "I didn't do it, Mr. Kemmerick. I swear I'm innocent!" Mr. Kemmerick leaned back in his black leather desk chair. "Why is it that I don't believe you, even though I don't yet know what you're talking about?" Spend a year of high school with Annie Mercer O'Dell and her friends. Annie lives with her father, a police detective, who has raised her as a single parent from the age of five. She must deal with the school principal, who happens to be her paternal grandfather, on an almost daily basis. The "Annie Mercer O'Dell" series begins when Annie is a junior in high school in the midwestern city of South Hampshire. In this first book, "Roosevelt High" Annie struggles with peer pressure and a relationship with the school bad boy.