Julie Smockford is a teenage girl from an upper middle class family who is considered the prettiest and most popular girl in her class and is class president. She has long red hair and is very fashionable but is more concerned with political and social causes and is always protesting something, and getting in catfights with her best friend, Sandra Scoddle, who is a stuck-up rich girl of Jamaican descent. She is also friends with Pelswick, a kid in a wheelchair who is a good cartoonist