Jem is not your average girl, sure she looks like it, sounds like and acts like it-oh wait-she is your average girl. She has average girl problems. She has to deal with the complexities of friends who forget about her as soon as she moves schools, a new school that seems determined to blow her out like a candle, society's idea of beauty that constantly claims she isn't pretty or skinny enough, being an only child without a sibling to talk to and living with an uptight mother who goes away for long periods of time and never stops working. The last thing she needed was a boy.