Part of Middle School, book 10
First published 2018
Rafe Khatchadorian thought his London class trip would be amazing. He pictures himself exploring an incredible foreign city with his Hills Valley Middle School classmates. Reality hits hard when he discovers his roommate is Miller the Killer, the school's worst bully. Things get more complicated when Rafe must work on a class project with Jeanne Galletta, his secret crush, and her perfect boyfriend. Every day brings new disasters under the stern watch of his principal. Rafe stumbles from one embarrassing situation to the next as his notorious bad luck follows him across the ocean. Each mishap threatens to destroy the progress he made back home at Hills Valley. This trip might become his most humiliating adventure yet, unraveling all the good things waiting for him when he returns.
Genres: fiction, adventure, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, secret-crush
Setting: Hills Valley, London
Period: 21st-century
288 pages · Hardcover · jimmy patterson