This omission elicits a response from Malú in the form of planning and implementing an anti-talent show, which the band decides to call the Alterna-Fiesta. The band auditions for the middle school’s annual Fall Fiesta while the audition is supposed to merely be cursory, the Co-Co’s are left off the list of performing acts.
With time, she meets Joe, Benny, and Ellie-the three classmates with whom she will eventually form a band, the Co-Co’s.
Malú gets a dress-code violation on her first day for wearing copious amounts of eyeliner her punk aesthetic is a consistent form of rebellion throughout the book. Malú navigates the social mores of middle school, where she encounters her chief antagonist, Selena Ramirez, a popular girl who is part of the Candy Crew the clique is identified by the candy necklaces they wear. Hidalgo’s mother, is also Malú and her mother’s neighbor. Hidalgo their son, José, who goes by Joe, will be a classmate of Malú’s. Prior to school starting, the two go to Calaca Coffee, a nearby café and consistent setting in the novel. Malú’s mom, who Malú has nicknamed SuperMexican, wants Malú to embrace her Mexican heritage and does not support Malú’s punk aesthetic. Her first days in Chicago are fraught with anxiety, as she attempts to adjust to life in a new city and being away from her dad. Malú is not looking forward to the move, nor starting 7th grade at José Guadalupe Posada Middle School. Her father owns Spins & Needles, a record shop, and it’s through him that Malú inherits her love of music, and especially punk rock. Malú’s mom is Mexican-American, and her dad is white. The book’s protagonist, 12-year-old María Luisa O’Neill-Morales, who goes by Malú, is about to move with her mom from Gainesville, Florida to Chicago, in order for her mom to take a teaching position in the latter city.
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