A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. Don't they realize that Hope's the only one who keeps me sane? I don't see how things could get any worse.'
Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of.