Each book is written in the first person view of a middle school girl named Jamie Kelly.
[2] The series follows the adventures and awkward incidents of Jamie Kelly at Mackerel Middle School with her friends Isabella and Angeline.
Jim Benton stated:[4] Your work can land in ways you can't predict.
I always tried to write Jamie as a person who was forever discovering new things about herself and the people around her-and she was very often wrong at first.
I'm certain that Jamie has all sorts of discoveries ahead of her.Critical reception for the series has been mixed,[5] with Publishers Weekly writing that the lead character "makes the occasional funny observation, more often her stabs at humor miss their mark or are so protracted that the comic moment fizzles".