Lydia Goldblatt

Lydia Goldblatt is one of the two main protaganists of the Popularity Papers. She lives with her mom and sister Melody, who she describes as "one weird sister" in the main book. Although she is a good friend to Julie most of the time, she sort of abandoned Julie and then hurt her feelings at the end of the first book and according to Julie, was very pushy when she was leader of the Outcasts. She is also shown to have some control over Julie, as she may have been the one who persuaded Julie into buying the journal, and made her join a rock band.

Description
Lydia is a confident and outgoing girl who loves to sing and act. She is very social, but her ideas often backfire such as her hair falling out when they tried to put a white streak in it, auditioning for a school play after auditions but finding out that she was given a line that was someone elses then percieved as 'stealing' it, and so on. As of the 6th book, during her mother's wedding, Jamie Burke is her date to it. There is a drawing of her slow dancing with him, and Jamie telling her why he likes her. Julie states that she "clearly had fun dancing with him", but Lydia is hesitant before stating "Okay, maybe just a little."