Max POW

AUDIENCE: teens, video-game fanatics, anyone who needs a laugh. TEASER: It's not everyday that a cute girl flirts with you during a funeral and then wants to hang out at your prom. CAPSULE SUMMARY: Max, Baz, and Ali are now seniors at Wahoo High School. They've been best buds since 8th grade, but Baz's half-sister wants to hang out with them at the prom. It's time for Max and Ali to decide, is this a crush or are we a couple? SUMMARY: Max and Baz have been smitten with Ali since middle school. Baz's half-sister (Phylly) is making some serious moves on Max. It's time to choose or lose. Grammy Evie complicates everyone's lives by performing a high-velocity nose dive into a potted plant; neither she nor the plant survives. No one knew that she loved high-stakes poker, had a Canadian email address, or a closet devoted to flamboyant hats with foot-long feathers. Did Grammy gamble away the deed to her home? Prom decorating is being supervised by Cecil Augustus Burdy, whose tastes exceed Wahoo High's budget. Coaches Downey and Kroeger are in charge of maintaining strict decorum in the hallways and even stricter morality. Whispers of mutiny are growing louder. Max, Phylly, Baz, and Ali decide to gamble on some desperate schemes to save their prom. They know that sometimes you have to Take It To The MAX. VIDEO GAME TIE-IN: Everyone at Wahoo High is addicted to a new video game named Choose or Lose, which forces the players to make some insanely difficult choices. The game's neo-Nazi stars are Fraulein Krow, code name Raven, and Dr. Wulfstein, code name Wolfie. Both look and act a LOT like the hall monitors that Max and his friends face each day at Wahoo High. WEBSITE: www. LeeSmyth.com