The Life and Lies of The How-To Manual

Ding has graduated from high school, learned a thing or two about speaking, and has joined PTV as the "official unofficial assistant to the bassist". She's on tour with the boys, has gotten into a great college, and even managed to graduate early.

Things should be easy from now on out, right?

Not when your vocabulary hasn't expanded since the Olivia incident.

Join Jaime Preciado and the Mighty Ding as they face their greatest adventure yet. When a terrible accident happens to MD, she's left with a horrible disability, yelling seasons, and the question of why oranges are colors and fruits. Although this incident may seem as only something that might be temporary, it's done more damage than they thought.

This might be MD's last year...alive.

Can she make it count?

1. How To Buy a How To Manual

   (Or the time when the plumbing broken and Alfred offered me a great manual)

2. How To Break Down a Tour Bus Door

   (Or the day when Turtle left the keys in the bus and I became a karate master in two minutes)

3. How To Create a Friendship

   (Or why I get scared every time Jack Barakat gets near the bus)

4. How to Get Drunk Like Vic Fuentes

   (Or the time that we partied with All Time Low, but the fun isn't over yet...)

5. How to Survive a Pillow Fight with Turtle and Autumn

   (Or the games that we played at midnight)

6. How to Survive a Day in the Undercarriage

   (Or what happened when I managed to get my pencil, manual and write a quick little entry)

7. How to Cuddle Like Autumn

   (Or the day I was finally rescued!)

8. How to Fly

   (Or the moment when I learned why we can't)

9. How to Drive a Bus Like an Determined Jaime Preciado

   (Or when he decides that enough is enough and nothing can stop him)

10. How to Run Ten Miles in Fifteen Minutes

    (Or what happened when PTV left without ATL)

11. How to Feel Like You're Losing Everything

    (Or when we got the bad news)

12. How to Become a Superhero

    (Or that moment I realized I was Iron Man)

13. How to See in the Dark

    (Or when I found out that lights won't help, even if they are on)

14. How To Die

    (Or when Jaime found out that MD wasn't going Camel Racing)

15. How to "See" Like a Blind Person

    (Or when Zack and Rian were really sweet to me)

16. How to Swim

    (Or when I didn't want to swim but Jaime convinced me, that asschip!)

17. How to Take Care of Willow Caston

    (Or when Jaime let the others know of the big news and I got my head stuck in a shirt)

18. How to Find a How-To Manual

    (Or when my mom called at one in the morning and I was sleep drunk)

19. I'm Really Sorry, Guys!

20. How To Love a Liar

    (Or when we "persuaded" Jules and I went to play "chess" with a dirty little cheater)

21. How to Forgive Jaime Preciado

    (Or when I found out that I can only stay mad at him for three weeks. No longer.)

22. How to Find Out You're Dying

    (Or when Jaime was Pedro and I became an Intern to Insanity)

23. How to Escape a Prison

    (Or When Jaime locked me in the bus and I am the inevitable BA)

24. How to Be Partners in Crime

    (Or How I Found Toddy, well, He Found Me, Actually)

25. How to Ride A Rollercoaster Like Toddy

    (Or When I Had to Let Him Go)

26. How To Prank Victor Vincent Fuentes

    (Or When I could See the Light Once Again)

27. How To "Persuade" People

    (Or When Jaime Got Heatstroke)

28. How to Seduce Jaime Preciado Into Doing What You Want

    (Or When I Done-Diddly-Do-Da-Done It)

29. How To Find True Love

    (Or the moment when I fireworks went off, literally and figuratively.)

30. How to Marry a Turtle and a Season

    (Or When Jaime Wanted to Do the Do and I wanted to Do the Sleep.)

31. Would You Please Help Me Out and Do This Awesome Thing, Please?? :)

    I have some exciting news and I'd love if you would help me out!

32. How To Find the Light Switch (Or Nah)

    (Or That moment that I realized that I wasn't going to be able to find it for a while...)

33. How to Find Out That There's No Hope

    (Or When I couldn't tell Jaime my favorite ice cream flavor)

34. How To Become a Dad

    (Or When I Met Toddy...again)

35. How to Be Admitted to a Hospital Permanently

    (Or when I realized that this truly was the end of the Mighty Ding)

36. How to Watch Angels Fall

    (Or when Jaime stole me)

37. How to Find the Love of Your Life

    (Or When I Said Yes)

38. How to Die

    (Or the last moments I lived as the Mighty Ding)

39. How to Take Care of Jaime Preciado (Because I Won't Be There Anymore)

    (Or the last entry of Ding's How-To Manual)

40. How to Hold a Funeral for a Friend

    (Or when they cried, but the cake was good)

41. How to Haunt Your Friends

    (Or when I figured out that my adventures never really ended.)