The First Rule of Punk - Celia C. Perez

Category: Children, Contemporary, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Friendship Middle grade Music

Written by Celia C. Perez
Read by Tinni Alvarado
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Roller Girl meets School of Rock in this middle grade novel about identity, friendship, and riot-grrrl power!

There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school–you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (Maria Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s queen bee, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better as long as she remembers the first rule of punk: be yourself.

The real Malú loves rock music, skateboarding, zines, and Soyrizo (hold the cilantro, please). And when she assembles a group of like-minded misfits at school and starts a band, Malú finally begins to feel at home. She’ll do anything to preserve this, which includes standing up to an anti-punk school administration to fight for her right to express herself!