Things Are Gonna Get Ugly

When Ernestine Smith moved from Pennsylvania to California, she reinvented herself as Taffeta -- so successfully that she's now the leader of The Girls, the enviable popular clique at La Cambria Middle School. That is, until she's caught cheating off brilliant-but-geeky Winslow Fromes, and Mr. Dribble, her social studies teacher, offers her a fresh start in lieu of punishment. Who wouldn't jump at the chance? But what Taffeta doesn't realize is that Mr. Dribble has the ability to turn her back into Ernestine, as if her transformation into Taffeta never happened. The only way to become Taffeta again is to dance with Winslow at Winterfest. . . no problem for Taffeta, but even Winslow wants nothing to do with a loser like Ernestine.