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CHARACTERIZATION: Drew likes a boy named Will, he is in 7th grade just like her and skateboards like her also. They recently got into an argument and Drew tries to apologize in many ways. Although he doesn't forgive her she keeps trying. She thinks of him as a burp, on page 235 it says, "But her feelings for him were like burps-unexpected bubbles that welled up inside her that had to be released."

ANTAGONIST: In this book the antagonist is Drew and Fonda who are Ruthie's best friends or "nesties". The protagonist is like the TAG group, which is a class for smarter or more advanced kids. Ruthie is in this class and feels distant from her friends. So for Ruthie its like a contest to see who she wants to be with and where she wants to be. She chose her nesties over TAG but to get there she has to fail her test.