Twelve-year-old María Luisa O’Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang–violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school’s most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
- ISBN: 9780425290408
- Published: 2017 , Viking Books for Young Readers
- Themes: Culture, Friendship, Hispanic Americans, Identity, Middle School, Performing Arts
- Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latinx in US, Realistic Fiction, United States
- No. of pages: 336