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(2) Sea Level
Andy and his friends are just like us, which makes this story pretty easy to read—we get what the characters are feeling because we can see bits of ourselves in them. Plus, the book's written the way high school students speak, so once you get used to figuring out who's talking (the chapters jump back and forth to different characters' perspectives), it's easy to follow along.