Rowena "Randy" Zak is a new student from New York City with dark brown eyes and spiked black hair; she has a punk, wild style.
She is originally from New York, but moved to Acorn Falls with her divorced mother, Olivia, an artist, who grew up there.
Allison Cloud is a native American Indian with long black hair, who does well in school.
Sabrina "Sabs" Wells has curly red hair, likes to dress preppy and casual, and loves fashion and magazines.
She lives with her parents and her brothers Luke (who is in high school), Mark (who is in eighth grade), and Sam (her twin, who is four minutes older than she is and teases her about it).
Katherine "Katie" Campbell has straight honey-blond hair and color-coordinated clothes, excels in school, figure skates and plays ice hockey.
Her mother marries a French Canadian man partway through the series, and she gains a stepbrother named Michael, who is her age, and whom Sabrina likes.
(short for Bethany Zoe), who also do not get along with Sabrina and her friends, but in Peer Pressure, Laurel and Katie form a friendship, which was never mentioned again in any other books.