AlTaMiRa Books

After a disastrous freshman year Asia and Tasia are doing everything they can to have a different social outcome during sophomore year. They decide to try out for everything including dance troupe, lacrosse, musicals, honor societies, etc. Despite their lack of talents they're determined to succeed at something, anything in order to make their mark at Wide Valley High. Let the games begin!

Brand new school, brand new start for twin sisters Asia and Tasia McKinley. They arrive to their new neighborhood in Wide Valley hoping that high school will be exactly how fun it looks in the musicals they watched on television. They were wrong. Very wrong. Asia finds herself being falsely accused by popular students and nearly getting in trouble for it. She hides out in the bathroom during lunch time because she has no one to sit with, and all the while she remembers the days when drawing Bookgirl used to help her cope with social issues at school. But nothing prepared her for this isolation. Tasia doesn't fare any better as she becomes the target of a prank by enormous football players, she is ridiculed by her classmates during a group project and she also feels oddly outshined in her favorite subject math. She takes some solace in her science class when a student who shunned her ends up making a fool of himself, yet no amount of gaffes by her peers can shake the ...

Meet the most socially awkward twins in the world Asia and Tasia McKinley in the first book of The Anti-Socialites Diaries. It all begins with their tenth birthday party where none of the invited guests bother to show up. Asia and Tasia fear their luck is about to change in fifth grade at Whitlock Elementary School... for the worse. In the first two months of the school year Asia faints at the State Spelling Bee and Tasia loses a major dance battle against her arch nemesis Porscha... that's only the beginning. During the winter Asia worries that her crush on class cutie Marc will never amount to anything until she gets a Secret Admirer Card on Valentine’s Day. Who could it be from? Meanwhile Tasia plans to rebound from her dance battle debacle at a Talent Show in the spring with the help of glam girl Rosalyn. At the end of the school year both Asia and Tasia learn the importance of friendship and staying true to yourself amidst mounting social pressure t...

  “FLYY Kites! Get your cool, new kites for only 2 dollars! Great for a fun day at the park with friends and pets!” Mary shouted in front of our make shift stand Asia built out of cardboard and wood.   Luckily for me and Tasia, many people knew Mary. We sold out all 54 kites in one week.   We made $100 by ourselves!!    

  They are three of the biggest bullies on Earth.   They have been bullying me non-stop.   Asia told me about how mean Raven and Darla were to her when she was in their class for the first few months of 7 th   grade last year.   I  had no idea that they would be this LOUD and REBELLIOUS.   To make things even worse Mr. Hanes lets them do whatever they want and Sheldon takes advantage of that.   I don’t know how I am going to handle all of these bullies on my own.

Sharon spelled peroxide correctly. We went back and forth until the 16 th round. I couldn ’ t believe Sharon was such a good speller. It made me angry. “ Sharon spell ‘ Triskaidekaphobia. ’” Yes! I learned that word for the State Spelling Bee that I fainted at! I remember that triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.

I was FURIOUS.   W hen I passed the art room I saw an opened can of paint.   I grabbed the can and hid it in Mr. Hanes’ room until lunch time to get revenge.   After the bell rang I ran to the cafeteria with the paint, threw it at Raven and Darla’s table, and ran away.   WHAT WAS I THINKING!!