Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life / James Patterson 281 p. First in Series

Rafe Khatchadorian starts Middle School with a rules-filled lecture.  He and Leo the silent devise a game, he gets points for every rule in the book he breaks.  Along the way he get in dutch with the school bully and must finance buying back his R.A.F.E. journal of rule breaking events by selling soda's by the cup out of his locker, fell in "like" with the most popular girl in school, and ends up on the worst student list.  The story turns dark when he deals with "Bear", his mother's live-in boyfriend, physical abuse.