CURTIS PIPERFIELD'S BIGGEST FAN

Although he's a year younger, Curtis is a talented guitarist and an aspiring rock star whose biggest (and only) fan is C.C., short for Cecily. Her crush on him is strong enough to make her ignore everything the good nuns at school have taught her and impulsively give him a great big wet French kiss. Cluck, who's been in love with C.C. forever, doesn't like this; neither does friend Grace, who's wild about Cluck, nor Patrick, who also likes C.C. Everything's a real mess, but all is straightened up in time for the spring formal in Fiedler's first book. It's all silly fun, one neighborhood over from Sweet Valley and not quite Judy Blume territory, but harmless and sweetly innocent. Young romance readers will love it and long for more. (Fiction. 11-13)