is exactly how Edna said it was 100 years ago. And thus, because of Breckenridge, Nate's team won the scavenger hunt, with the prize revealed to be a hot air balloon ride. However, Breckenridge declines the ride because he suffers from acrophobia and Nate accepts this declaring that Breckenridge has “got friends in high places". Characters Nate Wright: a rebellious 6th-grader and the main protagonist. Chad Applewhite: a friend of Nate and one of Nate’s good friends. Teddy Ortiz: a best friend of Nate. Artur Pashkov: the singer of ETM and Jenny's exchange student boyfriend. Francis Pope: Nate's best friend. Jenny Jenkins: Artur's girlfriend and the girl whom Nate has a crush on, though she finds Nate to be completely annoying and bothering. Breckenridge Puffington III: Nate's new best friend and his buddy at the start of this book. His grandmother calls him Bobby, and he used to bully Nate in preschool. Nate and his friends nicknamed him B-Dawg. He makes his first appearance in this book and appears as a minor character in Big Nate: Blasts Off. He loves plants and wants to become a botanist when he grows up. 2015 children's books Big Nate