"On Claud, though, the look is very cool.) For example, today she was wearing a neon green tank top under a white oversized man's shirt and fuschia pink stirrup pants. The shirt was rolled at the sleeves and belted with a colorful woven belt. Claud finished the outfit with dangly ceramic-bead earrings she'd made herself in pottery class. She's super artistic. She paints, sketches, draws, sculpts. You name it! Besides art and cool clothing, Claudia loves junk food. Her parents disapprove of Ho-Ho's and Twinkies and stuff like that, so she hides them all over her room. You never know when you're going to pick up a pillow and find a bag of potato chips or something behind it. The other thing she stashes away are her Nancy Drew books. Her parents don't approve of those, either. They don't think the mysteries are "intellectual" enough. Claudia couldn't care less if the books are "intellectual." One thing Claud is not interested in is school work. Although she can't spell for anything, she's definitely not dumb. She just doesn't like school. And, unfortunately, her grades show it. She's the complete" --