Twelve-year-old Mar?ia Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Mal?u) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: individuality, juvenile fiction, friendship, mexican americans, punk rock music, bands (music), middle schools, schools, fiction, chicago (ill.), juvenile fiction, fiction