As Told By Ginger

As Told By Ginger

Season #1

 Episode #1: Ginger the Juvey – Ginger foolishly follows the lead of archrival Miranda when she steals the supposed perfect birthday gift for the most popular girl in at school. In the first episode of the series, Ginger Foutley, the star of the series, gets invited to Courtney Gripling’s surprise birthday party, and doesn’t know what to give her as a present. Miranda, Courtney’s best friend, tells Ginger to steal Sheltered Shrubs’ bank sign. Her friends even offer to help her in this devious deed. But will, Ginger go through with it? Meanwhile, Carl, Ginger’s brother, tricks Blake Gripling into coming over for a play date so that he and his best friend Hoodsey, can spend the night spying on Courtney’s party.

 Episode #2: Carl and Maude – After going to a nursing home with Ginger, Carl befriends an old woman named Maude. They start causing mischief. Carl invites her to dinner and plans to marry her. Will she accept? Or will something else happen? Ginger, Macie and Dodie are serving time by doing community service in the retirement home. Ginger brings Carl along and meets an old lady named Maude he falls in love with. This causes tension between Carl and Hoodsey, especially after Hoodsey finds out that Carl changed the secret location of the doghouse and only told Maude. Meanwhile, Ginger learns that Courtney Gripling wants to come over for dinner, but Carl invites Maude to dinner on the same night. The girls are doing their community service at Golden Gates Convalescent Home for stealing the sign at the bank. Ginger brings Carl along who develops a friendship with Maude, a mischievous prankster who lives there. Hoodsey is jealous of Maude and Carl’s relationship. Courtney invites herself over to Ginger’s house for dinner and Ginger accepts. She is nervous and everything has to be perfect… it could but Carl has also invited Maude over for dinner.

 Episode #3: Stealing First – Ginger goes on a class ski trip. And Courtney makes plans for Ginger to kiss the Foreign Exchange student. Why is Ginger so nervous about going on the ski trip with her school? Perhaps it’s because she can’t ski, or maybe it’s because Carl and Hoodsey snuck along to cause mischief of their own, or maybe it’s because Courtney is trying to get her to kiss that French foreign exchange student on the ski lift… Hmmm, doesn’t seem like there’s anything to worry about at all! The Annual Lucky Junior High Ski Trip is coming up and Ginger is avoiding getting her mother’s permission to attend. Pressured by Dodie, Ginger agrees to go… despite the fact that she can’t ski. Soon she has something else to be nervous about because Courtney and Miranda have a bet going that Ginger and the exchange student Jean Pierre will get to first base on the chair lift. Carl and Hoodsey want to set a world record by being stranded on the chair lift for over sixteen hours.

 Episode #4: Sleep on It – After over hearing a conversation between Ginger, Macie and Dodie, Courtney decides to throw a slumber party and invites Ginger. When Courtney hears Ginger talk to her friends about their weekly slumber party, she decides that she wants to host one. Blake invites Carl over, but he can’t go because he got grounded, so he sends Hoodsey instead – in order to get his petrified eyeball back. When Courtney overhears Ginger making sleepover plans with Macie and Dodie, she enlists Miranda’s help in hosting this novel ideal herself.

 Episode #5: Of Lice and Friends – Lice breaks loose in Lucky Junior High. And Dodie becomes the school’s PA person. Will she become mad with power? Does Ginger have lice? When Dodie is chosen as the new school announcement person, she solemnly promises to uphold the dignity of the position but soon is delivering more gossip than needed information. Dodie gets the job of making the school announcements and uses it as a forum to reveal gossip about Lucky Junior High. When a lice scare hits the school and Dodie finds out Courtney has been infected, will she make the announcement or will Ginger be able to convince her to keep her mouth shut? Carl and Blake are trying to become famous. Carl is holding a lice circus, while Blake is trying to make flies with multi-color wings.

 Episode #6: Dare I, Darren – Ginger starts to develop feelings for Darren. Miranda tries to convince Ginger that she and Darren should be more than just friends, thus clearing her way to Ian. Carl and Hoodsey strive to become world famous and need to borrow Blake’s new telescope while he is recuperating in the hospital after a tonsillectomy. When Miranda sees Darren passing a note to Ginger in class and tells her that “you and your boyfriend male a cute couple” (mainly to keep Ginger away from Ian Richton, so she can have him for herself), Ginger takes a trip to the movies with Darren a little too seriously – especially when she ends up sitting between Darren and Ian (who’s sitting next to Miranda). Carl tries to borrow Blake’s new telescope so he can win a bet with Brandon.

 Episode #7: Hello Stranger – Ginger has to write a poem for the Arts Fair. And she invites her dad. Will he come? When Ginger receives a belated graduation card from her father, she calls his answering machine and invites him to hear her poem. She hopes for a family reunion and writes a touching poem about her father being a stranger to her. Ginger wants her father, whom she hasn’t seen in a while, to see her read a poem at a school show. When Carl is bitten by Brandon’s brother’s monkey, he starts acting like one. Lois drinks a pitcher of “dehydrated sea snake mix” (yuck)

 Episode #8: Cry Wolf – Dodie tells Miranda Ginger’s deepest secret. Will Miranda tell the whole school or will Ginger stop her in time? Carl, finding a toupee in the school hallway, fashions it into a mask which awakes the wolf within. He reinvents himself as “Wolf Boy” and Hoodsey organizes Wolf Boy showings in the backyard until Carl goes too far and attacks a teacher for his new wig. When Miranda convinces Dodie that Courtney is Ginger’s new best friend, Dodie reveals Ginger’s secret that her mom won’t let her shave her legs and Miranda uses it to blackmail Ginger. Carl, with a little help from a teacher’s toupee, transforms into a “wolf boy”.

 Episode #9: The Right Stuff – Courtney and Macie get invited to a high school French class. For a science fair project, Carl and Hoodsey are set to buy Einstein’s DNA when Blake Gripling gets to it first. Instead, they collect DNA samples at Macie’s pool party. When Courtney and Macie are enrolled in a high school French class, Macie somehow ends up hosting a pool party, where a couple of older girls that are named Chantel and Andrea are jealous about how Courtney looks at Will Patterson and plan to reveal (literally) that Courtney stuffs her bikini top. Carol and Hoodsey try to obtain some of Albert Einstein’s DNA for a fourth-grade science fair.

 Episode #10: Kiss and Makeup – Lois forbids Ginger from wearing makeup. But she goes and wears it for her school pictures. Will Ginger get into trouble? When Lois forbids Ginger from wearing makeup to school picture day, the girls decide to create “fake-up”. Carl’s ride with the trash collector results in an unexpected prize- Blake’s baby blanket. The date for school picture day has been changed and moved up two weeks. The girls are not happy and are tired of looking like dorky geeks and decide that makeup is the answer. The only problem is that Ginger’s mom has forbidden makeup for Ginger until high school. The girls decide to create their own makeup and call it “fake-up”, but no one’s taught them how to apply it properly. Carl and Hoodsey go out early on “Fat Friday” with Dwayne the trash collector and come up with the ultimate blackmail weapon to use against Blake.

 Episode #11: The ‘A’ Ticket – Ian and Ginger team up for a science project and Ginger finds out that Ian was using her to get an A in Science class. How will Ginger react? Ginger and Ian are made lab partners in Chemistry class, but when Ian seems interested in Ginger, is he interested in her as a person or her as a way to keep a “B” average and his spot on the soccer team? Carl, Hoodsey and Brandon audition for a glockenspiel solo in front of the town eccentric. Mr. Cilia, the Chemistry teacher, pairs off students for lab work in his classroom. Courtney and Dodie, Miranda and Macie and Ginger with soccer jock Jan Richton. Ian starts paying attention to Ginger and she starts to fall for him but Darren overhears Ian bragging to his buddy about using Ginger to do all the work and getting an easy A. Carl, Hoodsey and Brandon compete for the privilege of playing a glockenspiel solo for Ludlow Krantz a former student at Lucky Jr. whom Carl and Hoodsey idolize. 

Braceface Season #1

Braceface

Season #1

❤❤ Episode #1: Brace Yourself – Sharon’s confidence plunges when she gets her braces attached. Will Alden still want to go to the dance with her now that she’s a metal mouth? Nina assumes not and does everything in her power to convince Alden that she should be his date. Sharon gets braces. Then she realizes she can hear people talking in her mouth. As she’s supposed to go to the school dance with Alden, she’s afraid Alden will say no to her now. Then Nina phones Alden saying Sharon is okay with Nina going to the dance instead of Sharon.

❤❤ Episode #2: Crushed – When Connor’s appearance is radically transformed for the better after a session of acupuncture, Sharon has to question her new attraction to him. Does she really like him that way, or is she just being totally superficial? When new girl, Telly, comes to school, Connor likes her. In order to look better and approach her, Connor tries acupuncture. As soon as Connor looks better, Sharon thinks she might be attracted to him. Then, when Connor starts hanging out with Telly, Sharon is annoyed and starts competing with her. Connor observes this and asks Sharon out. They go to a movie – the place where Sharon realizes she will always see Connor only as a friend. 

❤❤ Episode #3: 5 Things That Really Bug Me About You – Sharon reads Maria’s diary. This causes a conflict between them. When Sharon’s braces open the lock to Maria’s diary she can’t help but read the private entries. When she discovers a list of negative character traits that seem to describe her, Sharon sets out to change her personality while re-evaluating her friendship with Maria. Even though Sharon eventually discovers that Maria’s list was about Nina, she soon learns that you should never compromise yourself based on what other people think of you.

❤❤ Episode #4: The Doctor Is In – Sharon’s favorite band comes to town but Helen doesn’t allow her to go. Nina spreads a rash in the school and ends up having private sessions with Helen. This makes Sharon jealous. When Nina hires Dr. Spitz as her own personal therapist, Sharon feels misplaced and jealous. Why can’t her own mom be as understanding with her as she seems to be with her patients? After defying her mother’s request that she not attend a concert, Mom and Sharon have to find new ground to trust each other – and building the mother-daughter relationship they each crave.

❤❤ Episode #5: The Meat of the Matter – Sharon gets a new job, working for Alden’s uncle, who has a butcher company. There, she is recruited by a Dylan, who fights for animal’s rights. It is now when she becomes a vegetarian. When Alden gets Sharon an opportunity to work alongside him at a part-time job, Sharon learns more than she ever wanted to know about the meat packing business. Upset at what she considers to be unfair treatment towards animals, Sharon becomes a vegetarian – even if it might mean forfeiting her chances with Alden. Acting on a new value system isn’t always easy.

❤❤ Episode #6: The Makeover – Sharon helps Adam get a girlfriend (Hannah). Due to her braces, things go a bit haywire. When big brother Adam reveals that he feels helpless at forging a new romantic relationship Sharon takes it upon herself to give him a makeover. Her efforts only serve to turn both herself and Adam into something they’re not; risking both of their relationships with the people they care about the most.

❤❤ Episode #7: Mixed Messages – Sharon decides to confess her feelings to Alden so she leaves him a voice mail. However, somehow the message reaches Brock, instead of Alden. Suddenly Brock starts flirting with her. Sharon decides to confess her feelings of attraction to Alden by leaving a message on his cell phone. When the message is accidentally misdirected to Brock, Sharon unwittingly finds herself receiving new attention from him. Confused, Sharon assumes that Alden no longer likes her. Discovering the truth of the matter takes a while – and Sharon realizes that no boyfriend is worth having just to have one.

❤❤ Episode #8: The Worst First Date Ever. Period – Sharon is getting ready for her first date with Alden. She helps out at Alden’s parent’s restaurant opening and then goes skating with him. It is then when she experiences terrible stomach pains. Not knowing what to do, Alden calls the ambulance. Sharon is scared and thinks she will die when in fact… she’s having her first period. At the hospital the doctor thinks Alden is Sharon’s brother so she gives him some tampons for Sharon, who feels embarrassed by this. Back to school, Nina is jealous of Sharon, for having a period. Sharon goes on her first date with Alden and ends up having to work like an employee in his family’s restaurant. If that wasn’t bad enough she gets her first period while they are rollerblading! Thinking that Sharon could be having an appendicitis attack, Alden (who has his own problems controlling a crackling voice) calls for an ambulance. Sharon has to find the strength to face Alden and comes to terms with the changes happening in her body. When Sharon learns that Nina is jealous that she got her period first, she starts to wonder if there might be something worthwhile to “becoming a woman” after all.

❤❤ Episode #9: The Divorce Thing – Helen has a new boyfriend and starts acting as a teenager in love. Sharon dislikes this, especially since she hopes that her parents will get back together. Sharon has to deal with her conflicting feelings over her Mom’s new boyfriend at the same time welcoming a visit from her own Dad. An attempt to re-unite her parents after seven years of divorce fails and Sharon has to finally face reality – grownups aren’t going to change things just because you want them to.

❤❤ Episode #10: Take That –Sharon and Maria audition for a local talent search in an effort to change their images and be cool. But when Maria starts to make a habit of using the, “Five Finger Discount” it passes on to Sharon and once again her braces react in a Funny Familiar way. A local television channel organizes a talent competition, offering a trip to Hawaii as a first prize. Sharon forms a team with Maria and enters the competition. To be cool, Maria starts shoplifting and encourages Sharon to do so too. Attempts to modify their image and be cool fail miserably when Maria and Sharon try to audition for a local talent search. Maria steals a CD so she can impress an older hip hop crowd she wants to join and Sharon tries to shoplift an earring so she can replace the one she first borrowed from her mother then lost.

❤❤ Episode #11: Twenty Four Hours – Sharon has her braces out for twenty-four hours. She is supposed to take care of Josh but she also has Maria, Brock and Alden come over. Because Sharon doesn’t do what Josh asks, Josh runs away from home. Sharon is braces-free for 24 hours. To facilitate her goal of kissing Alden under peak conditions, she volunteers to baby sit Josh so that she can have a make-out party at her house (Connor is specifically excluded). All plans to secure the Alden kiss go haywire when Joes goes missing and Sharon must live up to the responsibility she assured her mother she was capable of.

❤❤ Episode #12: Driving Miss Sharon – Feeling like she’s a loser at many of the things she tries at school, Sharon takes advantage of a daredevil opportunity when her braces kick starts her mother’s car. Taking the car out for a joy ride, Sharon and Maria make quite an impression on their friends. When the car finally hits an old maple tree, Sharon thinks she’s doomed for a year of being grounded. She can’t believe her luck when her mother assumes Adam is to blame for the damage. Sharon finally gains the cool reputation she initially sought but at a price. Is it worth it? Sharon takes over the school newspaper advice column as the anonymous ‘Miss Understanding’. When the column becomes a hit, Sharon becomes convinced of her advice-giving abilities and Nina takes advantage of that ‘anonymous’ position and claims credit for it. When Sharon’s ‘words of wisdom’ cause a rift between Brock and Alden – thereby breaking up the band – Sharon has to undo the damage. And, if that weren’t bad enough, Maria has just become Mangled Metal’s unofficial manager. In the end Sharon realizes she needs to learn a lot more about life before she can go around giving advice.

❤❤ Episode #13: The Pickford Project – Sharon and her class go to a survival camp. Sharon and Maria are teamed up with their number one enemy, Nina Harper. Connor befriends Alden and Brock. An eighth grade overnight camping trip meets The Blair Witch Project Meets Survivor. Maria and Sharon are upset when they learn that Nina has been assigned to their team. How will they possibly survive in the wilderness, let alone win the race, with her around? While Brock, Alden and Connor set out to prove that boys have more of what it takes to win at the survival game, Maria and Sharon do everything they can to overcome their biggest obstacle – the Nina factor. Things take a unique turn when Nina saves Sharon from an almost fatal fall from a suspension bridge. Sharon now feels totally indebted to Nina. This new loyalty puts a new strain on her friendship with Maria. Together, all our friends have to make it out of the woods – but not without learning more then they ever wanted to know about themselves and each other.

❤❤ Episode #14: Miami Vices – While vacationing with her dad in Miami, Sharon learns about alcohol two ways: hard and harder. Sharon’s dad calls up to the family, asks them to visit him for a while. Josh can’t come because he has the flu, so Sharon brings Maria along with her brother Adam. When Sharon finds out that she’s not Dad’s favorite, Sharon starts drinking just to fit in to be one of the guys! During the Canadian winter, Richard invites Josh, Adam and Sharon to his place in Miami. As Josh is sick, Maria goes in his place. Sharon feels she’s unwanted by the members of Richard’s band, who keep mentioning Josh. When invited to a party, Sharon gets drunk for the first time. Irritated by her mom’s constant rules, Sharon jumps at the chance to visit her dad in Miami where he’s playing a gig. She assumes that life with Richard will be way more freewheeling and fun than what she is experiencing at home. Flirting with the idea of living with her dad permanently, Sharon does everything she can to fit in to her dad’s lifestyle. When she gets drunk in an attempt to impress her dad’s friends, Sharon quickly learns that her father’s not as permissive as she thought.

❤❤ Episode #15: The Good Life – When her favorite singer comes to town, Sharon really wants to meet her and so directly competes with Nina. Sharon learns things aren’t what they seem. Superstar singing sensation LEENA comes to Elkford to shoot her music video and Sharon, Connor and Nina are picked to be extras. Sharon can’t believe her good fortune. She loves Leena. In fact, Sharon wishes she could be just like Leena. Wouldn’t her normal, somewhat dull life be much better if she were rich and famous? Not necessarily. Sharon’s illusion of fame is shattered when she sees first hand that a celebrity’s life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

❤❤ Episode #16: The Election – When Nina is forced to resign from her role as school president, Sharon decides to run for the position. But Brock has the same idea and asks Alden to run his campaign, which puts a wedge between Sharon and Alden. As Nina steps down as leader of the students, Sharon enters the election for the new free position. At the same time Brock also enrolls in the race, which enrages Sharon. Then Sharon starts receiving threats to pull out. When Nina is impeached as school president, Sharon decides to run to fill her spot. Unfortunately, Brock decides to run, too. All is made worse by the fact that Alden (Sharon’s supposedly supportive boyfriend!) decides to be Brock’s campaign manager. What starts as an exciting race turns into a flat out smear campaign… against Sharon! She is devastated to think that Alden could do this to her. When Sharon’s braces help to reveal that Nina, not Alden, was behind the negative publicity, Sharon is finally able to win the school body over in an impassioned speech that confirms her true leadership abilities.

❤❤ Episode #17: Angels Among Us – A Christmas gift exchange at school forces Sharon to confront her own lack of generosity when she pulls Nina’s name from the hat. With Josh exploring their father’s Jewish heritage, mom working overtime and a surprise visit from an unusual cousin, Sharon finds herself overwhelmed and confused. What are the holidays really about anyway? Sharon sets on to discover how her friends’ families cope at this time of year and begins to realize that tolerance of each other’s differences is a place to start. It’s Christmas in Elkford! Sharon prepares to draw Alden’s name from a gift exchange in homeroom, but her party is pooped when Nina’s name is on Sharon’s card. Sharon, at first, wants to get her something cheap, but she decides to get her a plastic angel. Sharon procrastinates and at the exchange, Sharon has five dollars in pennies for Nina! Just as Sharon is giving Nina the bag, Nina says she does not want anything that year. Sharon could not wait to get home and put the tofurkey in the oven (Sharon’s a vegan) and decorate the tree, and sing carols. However, her plan backfires when Helen has to work, Josh celebrates Hanukkah and Adam has to camp out in the freezing weather in the driveway with the family’s pioneer-like uncle. Sharon gets so angry, she storms off telling her mother she is going somewhere a “real Christmas” is happening. On her quest to find her “real Christmas,” Sharon stops at Connor’s, but she leaves because relatives constantly argue. She then goes to Maria’s where she takes an almond and wishes she could have her “real Christmas”. Maria’s was like a dream come true, but she is still not happy. Still confused, Sharon decides to go home. When she walks in, everything is like she planned that morning. Even Sharon’s “roughin it” uncle goes inside Sharon’s for dinner .Sharon then figured out what to get Nina. She quietly sneaks onto Nina’s front lawn, and the next morning, Nina wakes up and looks out her window, seeing snow angels with a ‘Merry Christmas” message.

❤❤ Episode #18: The Secret – Sharon must work at the Team Help Line for a community service project in her health class. But to find out Alden has a secret and doesn’t want Sharon finding out, Sharon thinks he’s hiding something from her that’s about Sharon! Sharon is being avoided by Alden. Sharon intervenes in her brother’s relationship with Hannah. Sharon is assigned the Teen Help Line for a community service project in her health class. When she gets a phone call that sounds suspiciously like Adam’s girlfriend (complaining that her boyfriend’s a make-out monster), Sharon takes it upon herself to cool her brother’s hormones while at the same time wondering why Alden’s won’t heat up. Little does she know that Alden is obsessed with his own body odor problem.

❤❤ Episode #19: The Dissection Connection – Sharon tries to get the school to stop dissecting frogs. In this process, she ends up stealing the school’s frogs with Connor’s ex-girlfriend. Tally and Connor break up when Tally hears a rumor that Conner’s been secretly seeing Maria. Meanwhile, when Sharon learns that her class will be dissecting frogs (and this project will make up the majority of her grade), she completely flips out. Tally approaches Sharon to reveal that she’s equally disgusted by the science project. Among other projects, Sharon starts a “cut it out” campaign to abolish frog dissection and finds that Tally is her biggest supporter – which really irks Maria and Conner. Conner and Tally have officially broken up but not without hurt feelings. When Sharon learns that they’re going to be dissecting frogs in Biology she feels alone in her opposition to the exercise. Determined to enroll others in her ‘cruelty-free’ plight she finally finds an ally in Tally. She is as passionate about animals as Sharon is. Maria and Conner not only react poorly to Sharon’s newfound kindred spirit; they aren’t as supportive of Sharon’s politics as Sharon would like. Nor is the school administration. In a final attempt to save the lives of the frogs, Sharon and Tally go on a rescue mission… and end up having to pay a heavy price for their convictions.

❤❤ Episode #20: Whose Life Is It, Anyway? – Sharon organizes a birthday party for Conner. When she sees Maria’s gift, she decides to get a tattoo. Being only 13 and requiring her mother’s approval, Sharon tries to convince her mother to let her have a tattoo. Sharon wants her mom to trust her more, but when Sharon sets out to get a tattoo, Dr. Spitz has a hard time trusting her daughter’s decisions.  A psychologist, Dr. Spitz is confident that her parenting techniques will dissuade Sharon from following through with her plan. However, the harder Dr. Spitz maneuvers, the more determined Sharon is to prove her independence. At the same time, a different battle of wills is taking place between Sharon and Conner. When Sharon gives Conner a birthday gift of yoga classes, she refuses to take the hint that Conner’s not as interested in this activity as she is.

❤❤ Episode #21: The Easy Way Out – Sharon calls a psychic hotline to see if Alden is interested in her, and at the same time, she puts off a test in school that will reflect a big amount of Sharon’s grade. Sharon gets ready for her anniversary but as she needs more motivation, she phones a fake psychic. She also postpones studying for the upcoming Math exam, which she fails. Adam starts gambling. Obsessed with trying anticipate Alden’s every reaction to her, Sharon  is drawn to the services of a psychic hotline. When some of Madam LaFaux’s relationship ‘premonitions’ come true, Sharon starts to rely on her more and more. An upcoming test at school leaves Sharon undaunted. Why bother to study if Madam LaFaux can just feed her the answers? At the same time, Adam is intent on getting rich quick and doing everything from selling beauty products door to door to applying for a credit card under the name of his cat, Moishe Spitz. Together, Adam and Sharon meet with disastrous consequences. Each learns that no matter how enticing certain opportunities are – there’s no easy way out of life’s difficulties.

❤❤ Episode #22: Teacher’s Pet – Maria thinks she’s in love – with Mr. Riley, the substitute English teacher! Not only does she feel encouraged by his positive attention, she’s convinced that they have tons in common. Sharon’s efforts to steer Maria towards a more practical boyfriend – such as Brock, are met with disdain. When Mr. Riley asks Maria out for lunch on the weekend, even Sharon has to admit that something authentic could be going on. But is that appropriate? Adam convinces her that it’s not – and Sharon goes to elaborate lengths to spy on Maria and Mr. Riley’s ‘date’ to ensure that Maria is safe. What she discovers is that it’s more than safe – it’s a meeting of prized pupils gathering for a volunteer program Mr. Riley has designed. While Sharon’s braces contribute to almost burning down the restaurant, a devastated Maria has to come to terms with her embarrassing misunderstanding of Mr. Riley’s attention.

❤❤ Episode #23: Skipping – Alden, Brock and Carmen have auditions for their band. Sharon and Maria audition and they get the part. Brock gets a phone call and tells them they’re up for an audition in a neighboring city but that it’s at 11:00am on a school day. The 5 teens pretend to be sick so they can go. They make the audition but afterwards, they get on the wrong bus. They get off in the middle of nowhere until they find a golf course with a golf cart lying around so they steal it and make it to a highway just as a thunderstorm blows into the area. Nina and her mom show up and give them a ride back to Elkford. However, Brock is caught by his Dad and winds up out of the band. Meanwhile, Nina and Allison try to prove that Sharon’s skipping but it backfires. Sharon, Maria, Alden and Brock (now collectively known as the garage band “Mangled Metal”) skip school to audition for the Spring Jam Fest in a neighboring city. Each gets away with pretending to be sick for the day – but know that they will be in deep trouble if they don’t get home by the day’s end – when their parents come home.  Still burning from being rejected as back-up singers for the band, Nina and Allison are intent on not only proving that the group of friends are skipping – but on getting them into as much trouble as possible. Things take a turn for the surreal when the gang, high on the success of their audition, takes the wrong bus home. They must overcome various obstacles, including Nina, to finally reach Elkford safe and sound – and in time. Brock is the only band member to get caught skipping – and as punishment is denied the opportunity to play in the Jam Fest. A disappointed group decides that if Brock can’t play, none of them will either.

❤❤ Episode # 24: Camp Kookalah – Sharon and Maria always go to Camp Kookalah together both hoping to become camp counselors but Sharon seems to be a little early! She becomes a camp counselor because she is a little older than the rest of her roommates and Maria is one of them. Maria gets put down by Sharon because she got to be counselor. After graduating 8^th grade, Sharon and Maria head up to their favorite camp for the summer. When they get there, they learn that Sharon’s been promoted to Counselor in Training (CIT) leaving Maria behind with the campers. For as much as Sharon tries not to flaunt her new position of power in Maria’s face, her efforts fail. When Maria’s cabin tries to plan for an avenging raid on the boys’ cabin, Sharon feels compelled to blow the whistle on them – raids are against the rules and she’s trying her best to win the award for best CIT. Maria and her cabin mates are furious and Sharon barely survives the fall out. Finally, Sharon decides that her friendship with Maria is far more important than her success as a CIT. She does everything she can to prove that she is cooler than her initial actions and finally wins Maria back – while also gaining the respect of the other campers.

❤❤ Episode #25: Stormy Weather – While Sharon is at camp Alden proves to be less than poetic or frequent in his letter writing – causing Sharon to worry that he is waning in his commitment to her as a boyfriend. When a new CIT, Jason, appears on the scene, both Maria and Sharon find themselves very attracted to him. Sharon wrestles with conflicting feelings about Alden while Maria considers Sharon’s interest in Jason unfair. She encourages Sharon to seal her relationship with Alden in an effort to secure Jason for herself. However, when Jason accidentally causes Sharon to break a band on her braces, their subsequent trip to the dentist gives them opportunity to bond even further. Alden is left in the dust .A sailing regatta finally shows Sharon Jason’s true colors and she realizes that Alden is indeed the guy for her.

❤❤ Episode #26: Twisted – Sharon’s end-of-summer vacation with her family turns disastrous when her dad, Richard, introduces them to his new girlfriend – Nina Harper’s mother! Sharon can’t believe that there’s even a remote possibility that Nina could end up being her step-sister and she does everything in her power to prevent it. Unfortunately, Nina doesn’t mind the situation as much as Sharon does. She sees this as the perfect opportunity to get close to Adam. Step siblings can date, can’t they? The harder Sharon tries to convince her family that Nina is baggage they don’t want, the more Nina endears herself to them. Sharon is finally convinced that she must resort to Nina-like tactics to prove Nina’s innate evilness. An attempt to frame her for stealing Adam’s championship ring backfires and Sharon is left bearing the “bad girl” reputation. For Sharon, the entire holiday is her worst nightmare come true… until she wakes up in the orthodontist’s char and realizes that it was all, indeed, a dream. Suddenly, Dr. Hertz’s announcement that she will need to continue wearing braces throughout high school no longer seems like the worst fate a girl has to endure.