

The news that the principal has denied the art club a table at the annual club fair sparks outrage and Maribella Samson, an enthusiastic art club member, is determined to resolve it. She becomes closest with Tessa Winston and Nina Badyal. Peppi finds friends with similar interests in the Art Club (who have an intense rivalry with the science club across the hall). (Debut)/Mentioned) Panel 6/6 Maribella’s Mom (Mentioned by Maribella’s Dad).

Things are already awkward enough between the two, but to make matters worse, he's a member of her own club's archrivals-the science club! And when the two clubs go to war, Peppi realizes that sometimes you have to break the rules to survive middle school! But when she trips into a quiet boy in the hall, Jaime Thompson, she's already broken the first rule, and the mean kids start calling her the "nerder girlfriend." How does she handle this crisis? By shoving poor Jaime and running away!įalling back on rule two and surrounding herself with new friends in the art club, Peppi still can't help feeling ashamed about the way she treated Jaime. On her first day at her new school, Penelope-Peppi-Torres reminds herself of these basics.

Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don't get noticed by the mean kids.Ĭardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them.
