SOLVED. Juvenile fiction focusing on two sisters, MC is possibly middle-school aged, older sister is a teen, MC struggling with friend problems, published pre-2008? [s]

[Megan]

I remember very few details about this book, but do remember I read it around 2008/2009. The main character is a young girl who has an older sister, and their relationship is a major point in the book. The MC has a friend named Blue, I think. There is a scene in the book where the MC and her sister go to a party and the MC forgets to bring her shoes so she shows up wearing a pair of socks. At the party there's a boy that the older sister has a crush on/is in a relationship with and he's going around trying to kiss as many girls as he can, and the MC was going to be "lucky number seven". The older sister is very upset about this and cries but the MC comforts her and gives her her socks to wipe her eyes and nose. Also at some point in the book I think the MC has a falling out with her friend Blue, but they reconcile by the end of the book.

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[Megan]

Apologies, should be public now

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[Megan]

Also if I remember correctly the MC has a crush on a boy she eats lunch with? I can't remember his name but I remember he has a baby brother named Will and that the MC mishears it as "Wheel" at first. Blue and the MC talk about him using a code name which frustrates the older sister.

[Megan]

Bump

[Becca]

Pretty sure this is Ten Ways To Make My Sister Disappear by Norma Fox Mazer. I found these quotes in a copy on archive.org:

"Girl number six for fifty-one seconds," a boy cries out like a sports announcer. "Who's going to be the lucky number seven? Who's going to go for the minute record?"
[...]
Sprig checks her pockets. Empty, not even a single chocolate kiss left. She could get up and find a napkin, but she just doesn't feel like leaving Dakota. She pulls off her socks and hands them to her sister. "Just use the top part," she advises. "One for your eyes and one for your nose."

https://archive.org/details/tenwaysto...

[Megan]

Becca wrote: "Pretty sure this is Ten Ways To Make My Sister Disappear by Norma Fox Mazer. I found these quotes in a copy on archive.org:
"Girl number six for fifty-one seconds," a boy cries out li..."

Yeah, that's it! Thanks!