Easy-going, agreeable Darren got his cool like a hand-me-down sweater: His older brother Will is an extremely popular high school student. And Darren himself is one of those rarest of rare animals: a down-to-earth, self-confident 12-year-old. Ginger values Darren's delivery of highly-coveted inside info from the cool world, but alas, his popularity has been sabotaged temporarily by a massive metal structure attached to his face. The horror of braces and headgear has befallen him.
