Mia Fullerton

Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary's with a goal: to lose her nickname "Mia the Meek", and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she's prepared herself for the battle by reading Excruciatingly Shy: How to Defeat Public Fear and Become Popular, her freshman year remains a series of uphill battles. The week before school starts, Mia first encounters Tim - the handsome yet seemingly arrogant oldest son of the new family next door. Their relationship develops based on competition - from literature to the basketball court - and Mia's got her work cut out for her. In Mia, author Eileen Boggess has created the best kind of modern female role model - the kind who sees most of her flaws and wants to change them; one who's not only intelligent but athletic; and one who's trying to find her way through a very awkward time in life. In telling her story, Mia proves to be a witty, quick, candid, and interesting fourteen year old.

Summer has finally arrived, but Mia Fullerton doesn't have much to celebrate. Her best friend, Lisa, is spending the summer at a Mensa camp, and her boyfriend, Tim, will be at his grandparents' house in Maine. So, stuck with a choice of spending the next two months hanging out with her younger brother, Chris - who has declared a prank war on her - or taking a job on the stage crew at a local children's theater group, Mia chooses the lesser of two evils and begins working at Little Tyke's. The moment she meets the other student members of the stage crew, Mia realizes she's not at St. Hilary's anymore. There's Zoë, a Goth punk rock singer with fifteen facial piercings; Henry, a caffeine addict with the self-declared ability to predict people's coffee preferences; and Eric, a former childhood friend who's definitely outgrown his shy ways and geeky appearance. At first, Mia's mortified when she's forced to perform for audiences dressed as Playtime Pal - the clown who introduces the plays - or be a last-second stand-in for a kid who's just tossed his cookies on stage (after she has cleaned it up, of course) or is abruptly hauled off for a family vacation. But as the summer progresses, Mia realizes something very strange - she actually enjoys acting! As Mia begins to explore this less meek version of her former self, Tim does something that destroys her trust in him and shatters her heart. This act of betrayal ultimately sends Mia into the arms of the easy-going, Adonis-like, and very willing Eric. And when the summer comes to an end, bringing Tim back into her Des Moines, Iowa life, Mia has a tough decision to make: Should she return to Tim and her former shy ways, or should she continue to let this new Mia grab some limelight of her own? In this sequel to the much-loved Mia the Meek, readers will again enjoy spending time with Mia Fullerton, watching as she navigates the next stage of adolescence, one humorous and memorable fiasco at a time.

After one summer at the Little Tykes Theatre, Mia Fullerton is meek no more, but that doesn't make her life any easier - not in her sophomore year at St. Hilary's, when her best friend Lisa forces her into a dangerously big part in The Music Man. Not when her ex-boyfriend, Tim, is teaching his little brother Chris to treat women like objects. And not when she learns to drive - with serious repercussions. Who is Mia? Is she an independent girl like Zoë, her acerbic goth friend from Little Tykes? Or is she the girl who misses Tim, even after the way he betrayed her? Can Mia forgive Tim? Should she instead choose Eric, Zoë's cousin, a nicer and more respectful choice in every way? Or would either choice defeat her goals of independence? Between dog costumes and stage costumes, big embarrassments and bigger chickens, and everything else that could possibly go wrong, Mia the Magnificent is a hilarious, clever, and endlessly fun novel, and the best installment yet of the Mia Fullerton series.