A sixth-grader who suddenly finds herself in the scary-but-exciting new realm of junior high, Ginger Foutley is a regular kid—although maybe a bit more reflective than most—who's still trying to figure out who she is.
The social structure of Lucky Junior High grosses her out, but she's also kind of obsessed with it. If she were part of the cool clique, she swears she would do things differently. Yet her bluff is called when Courtney, a princess of cool, decides Ginger can hang. With one foot in each crowd, Ginger constantly flip-flops between her loyalty to her old friends and her desire to be cool with a capital C... Welcome to junior high!