Book excerpt: Kenny has a bully problem: a bad bully problem. Every day is torment, until a new girl arrives at the school. Alex is tall, athletic, and beautiful—and she doesn’t take crap from anyone. When she sees Kenny being targeted by the school’s meanest bullies, she puts her foot down—right into the face of the meanest of them all. And just like that, the bad boys are too afraid to pester Kenny. Now, school life for Kenny isn’t looking so grim. It seems like he’s in the clear, until Alex reveals to him that there is something she wants from the young, petite-framed man.