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    Sophie Loves Jimmy
    Sophie Loves Jimmy
    Sophie Loves Jimmy
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    Sophie Loves Jimmy

    By Nancy N. Rue

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    Sophie doesn’t see why a rumor that isn’t true should stop her from being Jimmy’s friend—but when even the Corn Flakes start to believe the whispers, she is hurt to the core. Now it’s an open question whether she and the rest of the Flakes can ever be friends again!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateAug 30, 2009
    ISBN9780310568414
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    Nancy N. Rue

    Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband, Jim, have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee.

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      Sophie Loves Jimmy - Nancy N. Rue

      Other books in the growing Faithgirlz!™ library

      The Faithgirlz!™ Bible

      NIV Faithgirlz!™ Backpack Bible

      My Faithgirlz!™ Journal

      The Sophie Series

      Sophie’s World (Book One)

      Sophie’s Secret (Book Two)

      Sophie Under Pressure (Book Three)

      Sophie Steps Up (Book Four)

      Sophie’s First Dance (Book Five)

      Sophie’s Stormy Summer (Book Six)

      Sophie’s Friendship Fiasco (Book Seven)

      Sophie and the New Girl (Book Eight)

      Sophie Flakes Out (Book Nine)

      Sophie’s Drama (Book Eleven)

      Sophie Gets Real (Book Twelve)

      Nonfiction

      Body Talk

      Beauty Lab

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      ZONDERVAN

      Sophie Loves Jimmy

      Copyright © 2006, 2009 by Nancy Rue

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-56841-4

      This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Requests for information should be addressed to:

      Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Rue, Nancy N.

      Sophie loves Jimmy / Nancy Rue.

      p. cm.—(The Sophie series; bk. 10) (Faithgirlz!)

      Summary: Paired with her classmate Jimmy for school and church projects, twelve-year-old Sophie must find a way to dispel the boyfriend rumors and to stop the cyberbullying campaign directed against her and a former school bad boy.

      ISBN 978-0-310-71025-7 (softcover)

      [1. Bullying—Fiction. 2. Computers—Fiction. 3. Cliques (Sociology)—Fiction.

      4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Christian life—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.

      PZ7.R88515Sjp 2006

      [Fic]—dc22                                                                                                  2005025259

      All Scripture quotations unless otherwise noted are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920. www.alivecommunucations.com

      Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan.

      Interior art direction and design: Sarah Molegraaf

      Cover illustrator: Steve James

      Interior design and composition: Carlos Estrada and Sherri L. Hoffman

      So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,

      but on what is unseen.

      For what is seen is temporary,

      but what is unseen is eternal.

      —2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

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      Four

      Five

      Six

      Seven

      Eight

      Nine

      Ten

      Eleven

      Twelve

      Glossary

      About the Publisher

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      Cynthia Cyber, Internet Investigator, leaned toward the computer screen, eyes nearly popping from her head. Could it be that a kid would actually be enough of a bully to print something like THAT for all the middle-school world to see? Impossible—and yet, there it was, a sentence that was already showing its ugly self on computers in bedrooms all over Poquoson, Virginia, and maybe even beyond. It was a sentence that could ravage the social life of its seventh-grade victim before she even checked her email.

      I cannot allow it! Cynthia Cyber, Internet Investigator, cried. She lunged for the keyboard, fingers already flying—

      It’s a seven-passenger van, Little Bit, said a voice from the driver’s seat. You don’t have to sit in Jimmy’s lap.

      Sophie LaCroix jolted back from Sophie-world at several megahertz per second—or something like that. She found herself staring right into Jimmy Wythe’s swimming-pool-blue eyes. She had no choice. She really was in his lap.

      A round, red spot had formed at the top of each of Jimmy’s cheekbones. Sophie was sure her entire face was that color.

      Do you want to sit on this side? Jimmy said as Sophie scrambled her tiny-for-a-twelve-year-old body back into her own seat. We could trade.

      I don’t think that’s what she had in mind. Hannah turned around from the van’s middle seat in front of them, blinking her eyes against her contact lenses practically at the speed of sound. She was Sophie’s inspiration to keep wearing glasses. Personally, I think seventh grade’s a little young to be dating. I know I’m only a year older, but—

      Mrs. Clayton didn’t turn around in the front seat, but her trumpet voice blared its way back to them just fine. There is actually a world of difference between seventh graders and eighth graders.

      Yeah, Sophie thought, fanning her still-red face with a folder. Eighth graders think it’s all about the boy-girl thing. I am SO not dating Jimmy Wythe. Or anybody else! EWWW. She scooted a couple of inches farther away from Jimmy.

      It wasn’t that Jimmy wasn’t a whole lot more decent than most of the boys at Great Marsh Middle School. He was one of the three guys who made films with Sophie and her friends. They didn’t make disgusting noises with their armpits and burp the alphabet in the cafeteria—like some other boys she knew. But date him—or anybody else?

      I do not BELIEVE so!

      So, are you guys going out or what? Hannah said.

      Not that it’s any of your business. Oliver, the eighth grader next to her, gave one of the rubber bands on his braces a snap with his finger. Why, Sophie wondered, did boys have to do stuff like that?

      Oh, come on, dish, Little Bit, Coach Nanini said from behind the wheel. He grinned at Sophie in the rearview mirror in that way that always made Sophie think of a big happy gorilla with no hair. She liked to think of him as Coach Virile.

      She had to grin back at him.

      We’re not going out, Jimmy said. The red spots still punctuated his cheekbones. We’re just, like, friends.

      Mrs. Clayton did turn around this time, although her helmet of too-blonde hair didn’t move at all. That’s very noble of you, Jimmy, to get Sophie out of the hot seat like that. You’re a gentleman.

      Ooh, Mrs. C, Coach Virile said, still grinning. Don’t you know that’s the kiss of death for the adolescent male?

      It’s okay, Jimmy said. He pulled his big-from-doing-gymnastics shoulders all the way up to his now-very-red ears. It’s what my dad’s teaching me to be.

      Bravo, Mrs. Clayton said. I’d like to bring him in and have him train the entire male population of the school.

      Coach Virile’s voice went up even higher than it usually did, which was pretty squeaky for a guy whose beefy arms stuck out from both sides of the driver’s seat. I thought I was doing that, Mrs. C.

      I wish you’d step it up a little, she said.

      Sophie glanced sideways at Jimmy, who was currently ducking his head of short-cropped, sun-blond hair. I guess he is kind of a gentleman, Sophie thought. She had never heard him imitate her high-pitched voice like those Fruit Loop boys did, or seen him knock some girl’s pencil off her desk just to be obnoxious. And somehow he managed to be pretty nice and still cool at the same time. The Corn Pops definitely thought so. The we-have-everything girls were always chasing after him.

      So if you’re not going out, Hannah said, why were you in his lap?

      She was turned all the way around now, arms resting on the back of her seat as if she were going to spend the rest of the trip from Richmond exploring the topic. Oliver groaned.

      Inquiring minds want to know, Hannah said.

      NOSY minds, you mean, Sophie thought. But she sighed and said, I wasn’t really sitting in his lap. Well, I was, only that wasn’t my plan. I didn’t even know I was doing it, because I was being—well, somebody else—and Jimmy’s window was a computer screen—all our stuff’s piled up and blocking my window so I couldn’t use it—anyway, it all started with the conference. I really got into it.

      Coach Virile laughed, spattering the windshield. We can always count on you to be honest, Little Bit.

      Let me get this straight, said Oliver. You were pretending to be, like, some imaginary person?

      More like a character for our next film.

      Jimmy, still blotchy, nodded. For Film Club. Sophie always comes up with the main character.

      I play around with it some before I tell the whole group, Sophie said. "I try not to

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