Author: Don Calame
Published: 2009
Ages: 14+
Description: "Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year’s? To see a real live naked girl for the first time—quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask for a date. But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt’s other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way to impress Kelly West, the sizzling new star of the swim team. Complicating matters? Kelly’s beefy butterfly-champ ex-boyfriend, Tony “The Gorilla” Grillo; a merciless life-saving instructor named Ulf; and a blackmail threat involving one very potent laxative. In the spirit of Hollywood’s blockbuster comedies, screenwriter-turned-YA novelist Don Calame unleashes a true ode to the adolescent male: characters who are side-splittingly funny, sometimes crude, yet always full of heart." [From the Author's website]