Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?

It's not easy being Mikey Elsinger and Margalo Epps in ninth grade. It seems like things are changing. Now some peopleIwant/ito sit at the same lunch table with them, and some even ask them for advice. What are the two friends to make of this strange behavior?PPFrankly all the attention cuts into the little time they have together and distracts attention from their own interests, like tennis and drama, and their own problems, like cheating in tennis and things not going the way Margalo plans they will in drama. In the opinion of these two bad girls, ninth grade can't end fast enough! But no matter how bad things get, one thing's for sure: They'll have each other.PPThe final book in the acclaimed Bad Girls series,IBad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?/iis another funny, insightful, and realistic novel from Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Voigt.PPbChapter One: At the Bottom of the Food Chain/bPPNinth grade stinks, said Mikey. Big-time.PPMargalo agreed. Stinkius, stinkior, stinkissimus, she said, partly for the fun of trying out her new Latin skills and partly for the fun of irritating Mikey.PPIt's overloud and overcomplicated and overpopulated. And it's taking a long time.PPIt was the third Friday of ninth grade. The ME twins, Mikey Elsinger and Margalo Epps, best friends since fifth grade, sat at their usual table at the rear of the high school cafeteria. The tables farthest back -- back from the entryway, back from the cafeteria lines -- were, socially speaking, the least desirable, the social cellar of high school.PPKeeping up her side of the disagreement Mikey reminded Margalo, Gazillions of people speak Spanish.PPAs if you care about communicating with people, Margalo said, and bit into her sandwich.PPLatin's a dead language, Mikey recited, separating each line of the poem into its own sentence to increase the annoyance value. It's dead as dead can be. First it killed the Romans.PPI told you i