Balancing Act
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For the 17 years Caroline French has lived, she has never been good enough. Constantly facing pressure from her parents, her perfect friends, and her future, She is overworked, overburdened, and at her wit's end. With the clock ticking down towards her last day of senior year, Caroline is running out of time to accomplish her goal of getting into Stanford and getting the hell out of town. As Caroline juggles work, school, sports, and her social life, new student Reid Taylor enters the scene. Already struggling to balance the many facets of her life, Caroline now has to manage another challenge in an area with which she has almost no experience: boys.
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