I Love You, Beth Cooper
Larry Doyle
Ecco
<p> Denis Cooverman didn't want to give a typical graduation speech, cherishing memories and embracing challenges and crap. So, instead, he stood up in front of his 512 class-mates and their 3,000 relatives and said some-thing really important: </p> <p>  ''I love you, Beth Cooper.''   </p> <p> It would have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that: </p> <p> Beth, the head cheerleader, has only the vaguest idea who Denis is. </p> <p> And Denis, the captain of the debate team, is so far out of her league he is barely even the same species. </p> <p> And then there's Kevin, Beth's remarkably large boyfriend, in town on furlough from the United States Army. </p> <p> Complications ensue. </p> <p> Denis comes of age overnight in this exhilar-ating, endearing novel that reminds us why we can't wait to escape high school but can never leave it behind. </p>