Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

Title: Awkward

Author: Svetlana Chmakova

Pages: 210

Finished: June 12, 2017

First Sentence: Okay, so when you've just moved to a new town adn are still a total outsider... this... is not the best way to start life at our new school.

Summary: Penelope, or Peppi for short, finds herself haunted from an incident that happened on her first day at school where she tripped, and then pushed the kid who tried to help her in order to avoid bullies. Peppi has also joined the art club which just so happens to be in a not so friendly competition with the science club. When Peppi's science teacher assigns her a tutor for her science homework, she reconnects with the boy from her first day, and learns that science and art can work together.

Thoughts: Easy read, though I don't understand how the various clubs had so much freedom to do what they pleased in the school? Perhaps I wasn't in the right clubs. Band was always supervised. Anyway, a very typical middle school book about standing up for yourself and finding yourself. Standing up for others. Feeling like an outcast. Etc. Etc.

Read for the Caudill Challenge.