Jeremy Heere is your average high-school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small defeats that come his way...until he gets a “squip”

A supercomputer in pill form, the squip communicates derectly with your brain to make you Cool. By instructing Jeremy on what to wear, how to talk, and who to ignore, the squip transforms Jeremy from a complete geek into a member of the social elite. Soon he is friends with his former tormentors and the attention of the Hottest Girls in School.

But Jeremy discovers that there is a dark side to handing over control of your life – and it can have disastrous consequences.

 

Ned Vizzini began writing for New York press at age fifteen. At seventeen he was asked to write a piece for The New York Times Magazine, which led to the publication of Teen Angst? Naaah.... his memoir of his years at Stuyvesant High School. Now twenty-three, Ned lives in Brooklyn, New York.