Max Diamond

Max Diamond is an 8th grade student at Whistling Pines Junior High.

Max usually hangs with his pals Cleve and Chaz, and is one of the most popular boys in school. Rockett regards him as someone who "is nicer than he wants to be." Max is known for throwing amazing parties, and he is shown to be a tad sneaky. For example, in Rockett's First Dance, he is caught cheating by stuffing the ballots for King and Queen of Hearts. Max often means well, but his mischievous nature sometimes gets the better of him. He has a crush on Jessie Marbella, and has more than once gone to extreme measures to get together with her. Max's middle name is Mitchell. He was voiced by Ezra J. Stanley (credited as Ezra Stanley).

Max is the shortest boy in his class. He has short, curly, chestnut hair, dark eyebrows, freckled cheeks, and a large nose.

Even though his birthdate is never mentioned, Max is marked down as a Scorpio in Viva's class astrology book, meaning he was born between Oct 23 and Nov 22. In the Rockett's World book, Are We There Yet?, for the calendar fundraiser Max is eligible to pose on the October page, narrowing his possible birthday to the last 9 days in October. It's unlikely that he was born on Oct 31, since the games emphasize that Mavis (the psychic) was born on that day and the fact that Max did not make his 8th grade Halloween party birthday-related in any way.

Relationships
Max is a member of The Ones clique so he mostly hangs out with fellow guys in the group, Cleve Goodstaff and Chaz Franklin. He is always playfully teasing the girls in the clique, Nicole Whittaker, Whitney Weiss, and Stephanie Hollis (or they’re teasing him back). For his mischievous activities, Max turns to other pranksters in school, primarily Ruben Rosales or Bo Pezanski.

He has a crush on Jessie Marbella, and it’s implied that Jessie feels the same attraction to him. However, his friendship with The Ones keeps him from openly acting on those feelings, which makes Jessie doubt that he likes her as more than a friend. Max has bought her presents as tokens of his affection, but passes them off as thank-yous or small gestures. And in February for the school dance, he tried to cheat the votes for King and Queen of Hearts so he and Jessie could win together.

He has no known teacher friendships or crushes.

Academics
Max has Mr. Baldus as his homeroom teacher. His fall report card shows him as an A/B average student with Shop and Science being his best subjects and French being his worst.

For the school talent show in the book Who’s Running This Show?, Max teams up with Cleve and they tell corny jokes while Stephanie’s parrot, Panama, squawks one liners in reply.