This book is about a girl named Jessie who is in the smart classes in school. Her life is turned on its side when her two best friends turn punk and one of them throws herself on Jessie’s bad-boy crush. At the same time, her brother Barrett gives up being a punk, shaves off his orange mohawk, and starts dating the prom princess. Then, Jessie makes some new friends who enjoy Dungeons and Dragons and finds that it’s not so bad to be a nerd, which she had feared. She even realizes that she likes one of the boys in the group.
I thought this book was pretty good, even though it contained what I would consider to be very inappropriate language. It was an interesting plot because people always assume that all nerds are basically the same, but (as Jessie found) they aren’t. Also, I liked Jessie’s brother because he was supportive of Jessie and he really wanted to protect her, which I thought was a really good thing for an older brother to do, even though I don’t have an older brother myself. On the Teen Reading Scale, I would rate this book as “rockin.’” I don’t know if I would recommend it to my friends, but it’s an OK book to read.
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