Juliet Dove, Queen of Love

Juliet Dove is a girl who doesn’t like to be noticed. But though she may be shy, she has a wickedly sharp wit. Whenever someone does take notice of her, she tears into the person with a savagery that’s earned her the nickname “Killer.”

Juliet ends up leaving Mr. Elives’s magic shop with Helen of Troy’s amulet—that is, a virtual man magnet. Juliet doesn’t know what she’s got, but the boys in her class do—they start to notice her…

Soon, every boy in town is swooning for her. Yet, much as she’d like to lose all the unwanted attention, she can’t: The amulet won’t come off!

For readers 8-11, from Bruce Coville, the author of My Teacher Is an Alien and The Unicorn Chronicles.