Dawn Finch

Dawn Finch is a Sophomore (Grade 10) at Canby High School. She is a normal girl with a mono-tone voice who works in the Cougar Cafe and has quite a big interest in writing. She is friends with Andrea Garcia, Heather Kershner, Kyle Nelson, Willie Walls, and Olivia Sorensen.

Freaky Freshmen
In Chapter 9: Cougar Clubs, she is first seen walking into the Cougar Cafe when Olivia is talking about her new boyfriend-Chad to Andrea. She asks them what they're talking about, Andrea tells her not to worry about it. Kyle then tells her it's girl stuff and she wouldn't understand, but he backs off when she gets angry about it (because she is a girl, after all so she really would understand). She later continues to work with everyone in the Cafe when the scene ends.

In Chapter 11: Getting My Way, she is seen walking into the cafeteria when Andrea and Willie talk about celebrating Mrs. Sesser getting fired and Eric tells them they're going too far with this. She then tells them to have fun with that, even though everyone ignores her and she then walks away before the chapter ends.

In Chapter 14: Detention Hall, she gets put in Detention along with Andrea, Willie and Douglas, after she laughs at another incident caused by Willie in Miss Calkin's Classroom. She at first tells Willie he's an idiot, but later goes on with his plan when they're all in Detention trying to play Battleship behind their teacher's back.

In Chapter 15: Practice Makes Perfect, she is seen in class sitting down next to Willie. The two get to talking and they make amends for what happened in Detention the other day. After school, the two are seen hanging out and walking home, hand-in-hand, leaving Andrea, Eric, and Daniel utterly confused.

In Chapter 17: Level Up!, she is seen at the end of the chapter, once again holding hands with Willie. This drives Andrea crazy, so she asks for the truth. Willie ask why they would ruin the fun, but Dawn respects Andrea's wishes to know the truth. It is then revealed that they aren't really dating, rather they were trying to mess with Andrea and the rest of her friends and see how long it would go until they were asked whether or not they were truly dating.

In Chapter 18: Storytime (Part 1), she is seen in her 3rd Period Class with Mrs. Joy receiving an assignment about making a short story by using a theme from a popular book series. When she heard this, she originally wanted to do Harry Potter, but she decided to do a theme with The Chronicles of Narnia instead while her and Andrea were talking in the Library together.

In Chapter 19: Storytime (Part 2), she is seen walking into Mrs. Joy's class with Andrea receiving her results and her grade from the assignment she sent to her teacher the previous day. Mrs. Joy reads the paper aloud and is very impressed. Not only does Dawn receive an A+, but she also receives extra credit! On top of that, Andrea promises to take her out for Dairy Queen--her treat. After they took their orders while they were there, Mick walks up and buys both of their ice-creams for them. This leaves Dawn really intrigued. What could be a better day?

In Chapter 21: Something's Gotta Give (Part 1), she is seen at the beginning of the chapter, talking with Andrea, Heather, and Willie on there way over to meet up with Mick at Dairy Queen. She and Andrea decide to have a competition to see who Mick will end up liking. This leads to both Heather and Willie both thinking that this would be a bad idea. Heather tells them both to take things slow. Later on, the group meets up with Mick at Dairy Queen after Willie heads home. Andrea and Dawn both ask him several questions throughout the rest of the chapter. The girls then decide to take things further after Mick asks them both out to Mexican food and the chapter ends with Heather feeling concerned about this and all three girls hiding their true feelings from Mick, worried he would find out right there.

In Chapter 22: Something's Gotta Give (Part 2), she is seen talking in the hallway with Heather after revealing that the Mexican Dinner plans they had we cancelled. After hearing this, Heather then asks her what her plans are and she ends up asking Mick to meet her in the grassy area that's right off campus, thinking she would just ask him out right there. Once this happened, Heather, still concerned, gives her some tips on how to ask him out. After school, she is seen meeting Mick in the grassy area with a coffee she bought for him and she tells him she just wanted to get to know him better. Not much later, Andrea and Willie both show up, sabotaging her moment with him after Andrea decides to be a jerk and Willie causes Dawn to trip over him, leading her to spill her drink all over Mick. After this happens, she tries to explain, but instead runs off because of how humiliated she feels. Heather, who was already walking up to them, sees this happen and she runs after her. After comforting her, Heather walks over to Willie and Andrea and confronts them. After Willie leaves again, Andrea walks over and apologizes to her and they both hug and make up. After she leaves, Mick walks over to her and says he'd be willing to take her out for coffee sometime, if she was okay with that. She accepts his offer and the chapter ends with her and Heather hugging after Mick walks away.