Nimmi’s Spectabulous Schooldays

Nimmi Daruwala is starting Grade 6 and she is sure it is going to be absolutely Spectabulous! Will it? Eleven-year-old Nimmi Daruwala does not like her last name at all nor Sumit her chief tormentor and general pie-faced classmate. But she loves drama Miss Tanvi her drama teacher and most of all inventing utterly unusual words. On the first day of Grade 6 Nimmi wakes up thinking it is going to be a spectacular plus fabulous is equal to spectabulous year. But starting with an ill-fitting skort nothing goes right for her. Sumit is suddenly on the same school bus as her. Her best friend Sophia is talking in a strange singsong accent and is friendly with mean girl Alisha Dubash. And Nimmi’s favorite drama teacher has taken the year off. In her place there is the dull pale-eyed Miss Aatmaja who brands Nimmi the Troublemaker of Grade 6! With jumping rubber spiders tumbling candy colored school furniture a principal with one too many bright ideas and a birthday party where almost everything goes wrong Nimmi’s Spectabulous Schooldays is hilarious and dramatic and a story every schoolchild will relate to.