![]() Emmie sees him initially as only a bully who constantly tries to pick on her, and he embarrasses her by reading aloud the love note she writes to her crush. Class Clown: First played straight, then Deconstructed with Joe Lungo.Ruby and Mia were best friends until they stopped being close in middle school. Childhood Friends: Several, most since elementary school: Emmie and Brianna Jaime, Maya, and Grace and Tyler and Anthony. ![]() Character Title: Every book has the protagonist's name in the title with an additional adjective before it.Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Since these are middle schoolers who are making their first forays into testing the strength and meaning of friendships and early relationships, this is all over the series.Black Bead Eyes: While character eye colors are sometimes described, everyone is drawn with these.Art Shift: The main narrator's chapters are written as paragraphs with frameless illustrations between and around the lines, while the secondary protagonist's chapters-or in Becoming Brianna, the current day chapters-have a framed, more comic-book page style.Art Evolution: Terri Libenson discusses the evolution of the series on her blog, including how her characters have become more proportional, the backgrounds more detailed, and her writing is more detailed and layered.Alliterative Title: All but the first two books have had alliterative titles with the starring character's name: Just Jamie, Becoming Briana, Truly Tyler, and Remarkably Ruby.The former close friends have absolutely nothing in common anymore.or so it appears. Remarkably Ruby: Ruby and Mia are total opposites-Ruby is awkward, nerdy, and klutzy with skills in poetry and no friends since she started Middle school, while Mia is a smart Type A popular girl focusing on the election for class president.While the two are working on an collaborative comic for an art class project, peer pressure for Tyler to focus on his sports skills, Emmie's lack of confidence, and a cruel online joke combine to threaten their growing friendship. Tyler's friends, basketball teammates, and ex-girlfriend Celia have been giving him a hard time for it, while Emmie's mixed up between her crush feelings and worries about not being cool enough for Tyler's friendship. Truly Tyler: Tyler-Emmie's crush-turned-friend-and Emmie have gotten closer as friends since December.As the sole narrator on both the day of the event and various events leading up to it starting months before, Brianna wonders if what she's doing is worth it and what she believes. Becoming Brianna: Brianna prepares for-and participates in-her bat mitzvah, which her mother asked her to do.They both figure out what friendship really is and what they mean to each other on the last day of seventh grade. Maya is torn between staying friends with Jamie, her Childhood Friend, and doing as Celia's asking her in order to stay part of the popular girls. Just Jamie: Jamie is on the verge of losing her long time Best Friend to the Alpha Bitch of their Girl Posse, Celia.The two girls' lives connect on the night of the middle school talent show. Izzy finds interest in everything but her schoolwork, but her real talent is drama and acting. Positively Izzy: Brianna is a Book Smart brain who aces all her schoolwork, but wants to be seen as more than that, even as she's reluctant to participate in the school talent show that her mother convinced her to be in.Their connection is closer than what meets the eye, especially when an embarrassing note ends up in the wrong hands. ![]() ![]() Katie is the Class Princess-pretty, popular, and athletic, who has the picture perfect life and tons of friends.
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