Abby Hayes
Abigail "Abby" Hayes is the main character in many children's fiction books, called "The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes". She lives a normal life with a successful and supportive family and many friends. Abby aspires to be like her older siblings, Isabel and Eva. Isabel and Eva always fight. She also has a younger brother named Alex. Each of her siblings excel in a variety of fields. Abby is shown to be a natural swimmer, poor in math while rich in literature. Just because she excels in writing, she still feels incomparable to her siblings, though her  older sisters envy her hair, and her brother looks up to her. In "That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles", Abby is a talented baker. She is willing to break the rules at times but only when she feels she needs to. She wants to attend a writing camp next summer. Abby is an Amazing role model for young girls. Abby's friends and relationships play a major role in her life, as well as her love for animals, like cats and dogs. She and Isabel own a kitten named T-Jeff, a kitten she had once taken in secretly  when she found him in "Look Before You Leap" but was permitted to keep him officially when her parents found out. Abby's favorite color is purple. Abby's favorite thing to do is write in her journal. Her favorite grade school teacher is Ms. Bunder, her creative writing teacher. Her favorite middle school teacher is Ms. Bean, her art teacher, who also happens to be good friends with Ms. Bunder. A distinguishing characteristic of Abby is her curly red hair and blue eyes. She hopes to become a writer, journalist, or writing teacher someday. Her major love interest is  Simon, a saxophone player a year older than she is who goes to her school. Jobs. Abby is an editor for "The Daisy", her school's literary journal. She has one of the most important jobs and is the only sixth grader on the staff. She used to be "band manager's assistant" for the school band, the "Jazz Tones". She had been nicknamed "Curly Red" and had done daring jobs. When choosing between "The Daisy" and the "Jazz Tones", Abby felt it was too pointless to stay, even for Simon, so she quit, much to the displeasure of the  band director. In "Have Wheels, Will Travel", Abby takes care of her neighbor Heather's cat, Marshmallow, for a week while Heather is in London. The only other "job" Abby has had is shown in "Super Special #1- The Best is Yet to Come", when she takes care of Wynter, the daughter of Olivia Hayes's college roommate, Laurie. Laurie takes advantage of Abby by making her babysit the difficult Wynter for a week and refuses to pay Abby until Abby's mom finds out and kicks her out of the house, giving Abby the money she deserved. Journal. Abby  has kept a journal since just before fourth grade. The novels contain traditional third-person writing intermixed with portions of Abby's journal written in the first person. Since Abby's favorite color is purple, she writes in purple ink until "Everything New Under The Sun", when she informs her readers how she ran out of her signature purple ink (but that won't affect her love for writing). She adds calendar quotes to almost every entry, including some that she makes up. Abby loves to write, especially in her journal, and wants to become an author. School. Fifth Grade . In the fifth grade, Abby goes to Lancaster Clark Elementary School. Abby's favorite teacher is her creative writing teacher, Ms. Bunder, who gave her the nickname "Purple Hayes". Ms. Bunder comes to Abby's class every Thursday. Ms. Kantor is her homeroom teacher who is new to the school, having moved from Swiss Hill Elementary. Abby's best friends are Jessica and Natalie; Jessica moves away soon after. One day, Jessica comes back from where her dad lives for work and meets Abby, but Abby is not much satisfied with Jessica. Sixth Grade. Abby goes to Susan B. Anthony  Middle School. One of her favorite teachers, Ms. Bean, works as an art teacher; she is similar to and friends with Ms. Bunder. Abby matures in the sixth grade. Abby had the courage to get pierced ears on her own, and she has a new sense of funky punky fashion. She makes a very shy new friend, Sophia, who is very good at art.