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{{quote|The real world isn't like how Eileen Codlin wrote it. It's stranger, sadder, scarier, and smellier. But it's also the type of world where you can feel beautiful [[It Makes Sense in Context|while flinging around unicorn poop.]]|'''Jennifer Van Der Berg''', ''Extraordinary* ''}}
 
''[[The CornervilleCornersville Trace Mythos]]'' are a series of young adult books by Adam Selzer that take place in the fictional town of Cornersville Trace, Iowa. They started off as a realistic fiction humor series, but have recently started entering the [[Urban Fantasy]] genre. They are, in order:
 
* ''How to Get Suspended and Influence People'': 14-year-old Leon [[Embarrassing Middle Name|Noside]] Harris is a gifted (not to mention [[Deadpan Snarker|endlessly sarcastic]]) 8th grader who is tasked with creating a sex-ed video ([[It Makes Sense in Context|long story]]). He decides to craft it as an avante-garde film, and also decides to be frank about [[A Date with Rosie Palms|masturbation]], which angers [[Moral Guardians|Mrs. Smollett]].
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* ''Extraordinary* *the True Story of my Fairy Godparent, Who Almost Killed Me, and Certainly Never Made Me a Princess'': Jennifer Van Der Berg is famous, thanks to a book that was (supposedly) written about her and her fairy "godmother" called ''Born to be Extraordinary''. The problem is that the author got everything totally wrong. The godmother was a creepy, nasty, greasy man named Gregory Grue, who, by the way, threatened to ''kill'' Jen if she didn't go along with his plan. This is Jen setting the record straight.
 
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== Tropes ==
=== Tropes used in ''How to Get Suspended and Influence People'' and ''Pirates of the Retail Wasteland'' ===
 
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Dustin. Leon, to a much lesser extent.
{{quote| Now, I don't wish to imply that I don't care about sex or think about it. Hell, if I dedicated all the time I spend thinking about sex to, say, learning Italian, I would've been fluent by the end of the seventh grade. Dustin Eddlebeck, on the other hand, is just plain sick.}}
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Leon's parents are food disaster hobbyists and gave him the middle name ''Noside'' to insult the late Thomas Edison. Need we say more?
* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Jenny
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* [[The Alleged Car]]: The Jenmobile.
{{quote| ''I got it for two hundred and fifty at an auction, and I probably overpaid.''}}
* [[All for Nothing]]: {{spoiler|Turns out Gregory Grue is a vampire, not a fairy, ergo, Jen was never in danger.}} They all still think it was [[Worth It]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Fred and Cathy, both of whom made their first appearances in ''I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It''.
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