A┬а2018 Pura Belpr├й Author Honor Book
The First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no oneтАЩs watching.
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new schoolтАФyou canтАЩt fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Mal├║ (Mar├нa Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle SchoolтАЩs queen bee, violates the schoolтАЩs 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.
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The real Mal├║ 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, Mal├║ 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!
Black and white illustrations and collage art by award-winning author┬аCelia C. P├йrez are featured┬аthroughout.
"Mal├║ rocks!"
тАФVictoria Jamieson, author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Roller Girl
A 2018 Pura Belpr├й Author Honor Book
The First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no oneтАЩs watching.
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new schoolтАФyou canтАЩt fix it with duct tape like you would y...