Mildred Dumas

Just as Mr Feeny gets enough courage to ask out Dean Bolander, her ex-husband returns to win her back.

It's the first day of seventh grade and Addie's looking forward to unveiling her new and improved image. In order to become popular at school, she decides to host a party that Randy usually hosts, but he can't because of an accident.

Mr Ward assigns every student to a new group as part of a class assignment, and when Addie is put in the popular group, her status in the school is improved, but it might cause a rift between her and Geena.

Addie wants to become popular at school and maybe even famous, so she auditions for an all-girl band and gets in. However, she soon realises that being in a band isn't exactly what she thought it would be like.

Addie gets upset when Geena tells her that she and Jake are just pals and nothing more, so Addie gets all dolled up and starts reading glossy magazines to impress Jake, but that ends up just making everything worse.

After being overshadowed by her popular brother, Addie sets out to publish an article in the school paper.