Shelf Life

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2005 - 184 pages
On aisle 1, Louisa's crying.
On aisle 2, Adam's trying to get fired.
On aisle 4, a renegade shopper is releasing the fizz from soda bottles.
At the service counter, an irate customer can't understand why his Long Life Milk went bad after a few years.

Working at the supermarket isn't exactly glamorous, but the teens on the staff have a lot of tasty secrets: like the fact that Adam decides to stick it out a while once he sees the very pretty Employee of the Month. Under the harsh glare of the fluorescent lights, the staff, as different as the products they unpack and arrange, unite against demanding customers and try to amuse each other until punch-out time.

In between the shelves, you'll discover romance, humor, and other realities of life in the fast aisle. Shelf- Life is a red-hot special that belongs in your shopping cart.
 

Contents

Section 1
38
Section 2
52
Section 3
63
Section 4
76
Section 5
91
Section 6
117
Section 7
142
Section 8
154
Section 9
164
Section 10
166
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About the author (2005)

Robert Corbet played guitar in a reggae band, worked with inner-city street kids, and taught English before becoming a full-time writer. He has written three novels with two fingers on an ancient typewriter in Melbourne, Australia, where he lives with his wife and three children. Fifteen Love was Robert's first book for Walker & Company.

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