Allison Kate Finkle is the main protoganist of the series. She has two little brothers, Kevin, the youngest, who is in Kindergarden, and Mark, who is in second grade. She has a kitten named Mewsette (or Mewsie) and the family dog whom the family has had for a very long time, Marvin.
Personality
Allison, or "Allie", as everyone calls her, is a spunky, friendly, and kindhearted 9 year old girl who is a huge animal lover and dreams of becoming an "actress slash vet" when she grows up, so she can act in Hollywood films and save animals at the same time. She loves to make rules, and has created a book for rules on friendship, siblings and everyday life. Some of her rules are to help animals not to be killed and/or hurt (eg. never eat anything that once swam in the ocean).
History
In the first book, she moved from Walnut Knolls, a subdivision, to a 100+ year old Victorian-style house on the other side of town, much to her dismay.
Starting from the second book, she started attending Pine Heights Elemantary School with her best friends, Erica Harrington, Sophie Abramowitz, Caroline Wu and Rosemary Dawkins. She also got a kitten in this book, named Mewsette (Mewsie for short) from the litter of Lady Serena Archibald, a show cat that belongs to Mrs. Hauser, Brittany Hauser's mother. She was hoping to get a girl kitten, but Mewsie turned out to be a boy kitten. Also in the second book, Rosemary Dawkins said she was going to beat up Allie. Allie was terrified, because Rosemary was much bigger than her and had a history of beating people up. However after Allie invited Rosemary to lunch at her house, they became friends.
In the third book, Allie had to sit between two boys to make room for the new student from Canada, Cheyenne O'Malley. She didn't want to, but she put on her bravest smile and let the new student have a chance to sit in the front. She had to sit beside Stuart Maxwell, who draws zombies eating other zombies for fun during classtime, and Joey Fields, who barks and acts just like a dog. But, by the end Joey ends up kind of having a crush on her. Allie says they don't bathe but that is probably just an exaggeration.
She was even in the newspaper as a Junior Activist for Animal Rights (for Harmony Culpepper's intensive writing and reporting workshop) for saving Wang Ba, a turtle who is facing the danger of being ordered as turtle soup, at Lung Chung, a Chinese resteraunt, once. Wang Ba currently resides at her Uncle Jay's apartment in the bath tub of the spare bathroom.
Appearance
Allie has long, straight brown hair and blue eyes. Her cheeks are round and rosy, and she generally dresses in colorful yet casual clothing.
Family
Allie's parents are nice to her and probably everyone in the series and they are just like any other mother and father. Allie's grandmother is very picky and just a little mean, however she will buy things for her grandchildren. Uncle Jay is Allie's only uncle mentioned in the series or even that has spoken. In the first and second book, Uncle Jay is the boyfriend of Harmony Culpepper, but she breaks up with him. Thus, Uncle Jay has been living on the Finkle's couch in front of the TV when he has a perfectly good apartment. Luckily, they get back together when Uncle Jay gets a job as the delivery man at a pizza place.
Friends & Enemies
Allie's ex-best-friend, Mary Kay Shiner, was a crier and she wasn't very nice to Allie. When Brittney Hauser got mad at Allie, Courtney Wilcox, Brittany's best friend (and now ex-best-friend) was her only friend. However at the last day of school when she was in the principals office because of a food fight she has started with her goodbye cupcakes, Scott Scampley, a boy who called her "Allie Stinkle" as well, was nice to her.
After she has moved, she made great friends like Erica Harrington (who lives right next door to her and is in the same class as her), Caroline Wu (who is in the same class as her), Sophie Abramowitz (who is in the same class as her) and Rosemary Dawkins (who is in the same class as her and started out as a girl who wanted to beat her up).
Even though she has many great friends, she has enemies too. The new student, Cheyenne O'Malley is her enemy because she is always mean to Allie, even though Allie has done nothing bad to her. Brittany Hauser and Mary Kay Shiner are now her enemies, because they are no longer nice to her and is always calling her mean names and saying she's "practically than a boy". Even Rosemary Dawkins was an enemy of hers because she wanted to beat Allie up, but that changed quickly.