The Year of Secret Assignments

This Booklist Editor's Choice interweaves the writings of six Australian highschoolers. When an English assignment forces 'snobby' Ashbury students Lydia, Emily, and Cassie to exchange letters with 'low-life' Brookfield guys, Lydia and Emily are surprised to find their Brookfield pen pals so kind and civilized. But after Cassie's cross-town correspondent threatens her, the friends plan a series of madcap missions designed to teach this malevolent male a lesson he won't forget.