Awkward

Awkward
By Svetlana Chmakova
Reviewed by Alice



Awkward is one of those books that tells the story of a regular middle school life. So, Penelope is a new student who immediately embarrasses herself by falling over and making a fool of herself. The person who fell with her by the trip tries to help pick up her stuff, but as embarrassed she tells him to go away because of how she made a fool of herself. Couple weeks went by and she wants to apologize to him but is busy with her club trying to get a table for the Annual School Fair Club. The reason for this is that their seat is taken by the rival club the science club.

Soon, a later the clubs have a competition of which class deserves the table for The Club Fair, but what a surprise the boy who she pushed ( named Jaime) is in the science club. She is caught in the middle on who side to take, she knows both sides are not as bad as they may seem. Will she ever apologize, will she help the art club or even the science club, find out in Awkward.

What I liked

I liked how it shows how Peppi ( Penelope has a nick which is Peppi ) has trouble trying to confront Jaime because, of how it portrays Peppi as a social awkward girl. Also, my favorite character had to be Peppi’s friend Maribella because I can’t tell you cause that will reach spoiler territory. May favorite part was when a couple of bullies stole something from her she told them to stop reading and when they continued she screamed very loud.

What I didn’t like

Ok, I like this book a lot but, there's one thing that I wish they add more of. Some of the characters weren’t that important, for example a nerd in the art club does something, but not a whole lot. I wanted to have a little more characters but some of the characters that were basically important have their own sequel to Awkward.