Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of 'Moon Over Mississippi,' as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

Penelope--Peppi--Torres, a shy new transfer student, wants nothing more than to fit in and find a place among her fellow artistically inclined souls. The last thing she wants is to stand out. So when she bumps--literally--into quiet, geeky, friendly but friendless Jaime Thompson, and is teased as the Nerder Girlfriend, Peppi's first embarrassed instinct is to push him away and run. Though she later feels guilty and wants desperately to apologize for...

Eleven-year-old Nate Wright is living out loud and he wouldn't have it any other way! Even though his friends won't let him be the lead singer in their band, Nate continues to rock. This Big Nate collection features daily and Sunday strips that originally appeared in newspapers and on the Web at comics.com. -- P. [4] of cover.

"Warning : Big Nate is back, and the whole school's on high alert. Can drama queen Dee Dee compete with Nate's down-and-dirty gossip gathering? Will Mrs. Godfrey lighten up when she learns that she and Nate share a common obsession? And what happens after Coach John wanders into the flight path of a Nate-powered projectile? In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, the self-styled King of Detention is welll-armed... so proceed with caution....